“I’m not sure we need that many people for security, with me and Adam, you know?But I also feel like we’re just waiting for a problem, from Foley or from someone else.I don’t like being on edge, and leaving Thorn Hollow makes me twitchy.”
“That’s understandable,” Leo said.“We were ambushed by Foley’s guys, and Jade had that male after her, and you two were attacked in town.I think you, and she especially, have earned a little break, and if having a few extra security guards by you helps that happen, then it’s worth it.”
“Thanks, man.”Brick clapped him on the shoulder.“Man, I miss turning a wrench.”
“I love it,” Leo said.“I like being part of security, but there’s nothing quite like fixing a car.”
“I came to get my oil changed.”Someone whistled at Brick, and he said, “I’ll see you at the bonfire tonight.”
“You bet.”
Leo watched Brick leave and then turned his attention back to the engine.
He wondered if his wolf, the star in the sky, and the festival were all linked somehow.Had fate finally decided to stop being a bitch and help him out with his love life?
Because he’d love nothing more than to find his forever female and start a family.
Dream on, he snorted to himself.
As if he could just magically make his truemate appear out of thin air, like she’d be following a star he happened to see in the sky, like some kind of star-hunting-pirate.
If that was even a thing.
His wolf probably just needed to run wild in the woods, and then he’d be back to rights.
Hopefully.
ChapterThree
Friday morning, Mira woke before dawn, anxious to get on with the day.She hadn’t told anyone her plans to go to the Cleveland Mother Earth Store and talk to the Corners, because she was very certain they’d tell her it wasn’t worth it, that her powers would come when they did or not, and nothing would change that.
But it wouldn’t hurt to go see the Corners.
And maybe, just maybe, it would help.
The store opened at nine, but she was too keyed up to stick around the festival site for long, so she borrowed Nash’s car under the pretense of checking out a coffee shop that was well-known on social media.She declined both Lark and Tamsin’s offers for company and struck out on her own to the Wiccans’ store.
When she got to the store, she was early, and they weren’t open yet.But that didn’t stop her from walking up to the front door to wait.
As she paced the length of the front of the building to ease some of the sudden anxiety inside her, she wondered what had possessed her to just show up without making any kind of contact first.What if the Corners weren’t going to be there?What if they didn’t take walk-ins?
What if they couldn’t help her at all?
“Can I help you, child?”a soft, feminine voice asked.
She paused and whipped around to face a female in her mid-thirties, wearing a long, flowing skirt and a peasant blouse.Her long hair was tied in a braid and fixed with ribbons, and she had a glow to her that made Mira feel instantly at ease.
She wasn’t sure why, but tears came to her eyes.
“I’m sorry,” she said.“I should have called first.”
“Nonsense,” the female said.She pulled open the front door and gestured inside.“You’re clearly in need of something, and that’s what we’re here for.I’m Lorene, North Corner.How can I help?”
“Wow, you’re the North Corner?”That would mean she was the head of the coven and the most powerful member.North was earth, if she remembered right.But psychics weren’t magic like Wiccans, so she didn’t know much about them.
“Yes, I am.”
“I’m Mira.My parents are psychics, and we’re part of a house that’s nomadic.We’re in town for the festival.”
