“Will?”
Will felt it then, his body falling upward and out of itself.He was shifting.
Seconds later, he stood there in his wolf form—wearing a T-shirt.Sage smelled perfect, aroused and covered in Will’s cum.
“Okay?What’s this about?”He dropped to his knees and buried his hands in Will’s hair.“Will, you’re still wearing your T-shirt.It’s kind of cute.”
Lemon fluffed over to cuddle into Will’s paws, and Will growled at the cushion, and maybe also at his mate for calling him cute in his wolf form.
Why did this happen though?I can control my shift.This never happened.Is it…
Will sniffed the air and pricked up his ears, but there was nothing in the house that shouldn’t have been.Still, he got the sense that this was about protecting Sage.
Maybe my magic feeds my wolf side.
“So do you want to try some magic?”
Before Will could, someone knocked on the door.Sage rolled his eyes but grabbed Lemon to wipe himself off before heading out to the hallway.Will followed close behind, but he could tell who was darkening their doorway even before Sage had opened the door.
“Oh, my.You found your razor.Could you not find it within yourself to change out of your cloth—oh.”Peter leaned sideways to look at Will, who decided staying behind Sage was the better choice when it came to the scary vampire.“Tell me you got a dog from the shelter, and Will was being silly and put some of his clothes on it.”
“Nope, that’s Will,” Sage said, the pride evident in his voice.
Peter crossed the threshold and looked down at Will, who didn’t meet the vampire’s eyes.“Were you having furry sex?”
“Oh, yuck!Fuck you.Of course we weren’t.”
“Sage, you have cum on your shirt.Which honestly improves the shirt, if you ask me.”
“Ew, gross, and again, no.He just shifted after…well.You know, after.”
Peter looked at Will, the vampire’s eyes glacial and dark despite their pale blue color.“Turn back.”
Will whined.Not obeying Peter felt wrong, and defying an alpha in front of Sage was even worse, so the wolf gave in to the shift, much like he did at moonset each morning after a full moon.And that was great, apart from the fact that he wasn’t wearing any pants.
“Uhm.”He pulled his shirt down to cover himself.“Hi, I guess.I’m gonna go upstairs and find pants.”
He hurried past Peter, eyes down, hands covering his back and front bits.
“Sage, what did I tell you about house-training the young wolf?”Will heard Peter say.
When Will got back downstairs, looking a lot more house-trained, Sage and Peter were already sitting at the dining room table, and Will took a chair next to Sage.There was an enchanted cushion there, but Will didn’t wait for it to squeeze his ass, he just tossed it in the general direction of the couch.Peter gave him a look but didn’t comment.
“The brother drove into town in a rental,” Peter said without preamble.“If he stayed or is currently staying somewhere, he is paying cash, and I can’t track him, but Celeste’s cameras captured a nice image of him, and the staff are keeping their eyes peeled.I’d like to find that loup-garou and explain to him why one does not break into other people’s houses.In fact, I’d like to have a long and intense conversation about the matter.There are certain cultural practices I haven’t had a chance to perform in ages, and I feel this would be a good opportunity for another blood eagle.”
Sage’s jaw dropped.Will had no idea what a blood eagle was, but he sure as fuck wasn’t going to ask Peter about it.
“Ethics expert, my ass,” Sage said.
Peter turned his nose up.“It’s perfectly ethical.It’s punishment, and punishment is ethical.Besides, the efficacy has been tested multiple times on…volunteers.”
Sage rubbed his face.“Volunteers.Right.”
Judging by the look on Sage’s face, Will definitely didn’t want to steal Sage’s phone from his pocket and google what the blood eagle was.
Peter asked them both to stay inside behind the newly enforced wards.He was going to see if he could track down the car and Ed’s murderous asshole of a brother.Until he did, there was nothing much for Sage and Will to do.
Will had looked at Sage’s phone after all, and apparently the blood eagle involved slicing the ribs away from a person’s spine and pulling their lungs out through their back.While they were still alive.And the longer they stayed alive, the more revered the…practitioner was.Will swore to himself that he would never ever do anything at all to upset Peter.Not even the tiniest little bit.Ever.
