The druid looked mildly annoyed by Danny’s interruption, but nodded. “My father’s a druid, my mother was a pureblood sorcerer.” He said the word pureblood with such pride, it made mesick.
Danny looked impressed. “A rarity. I didn’t think your … people allowed such crossing of thebreeds.”
Steven chuckled deeply on the porch. “We don’t. That’s why his mother is dead, but he is of use to us, so we keep him around. Especially since our truth witch mysteriously fell ill when we started questioning about this missingredhead.”
His words made the bile rise up in my throat. They killed his mother just for sleeping with a druid? Why not kill the druid? Freaking doublestandards.
Steven took a step closer to Danny and pinned him with a half-lidded gaze. “What is a pureblooded sorcerer doing hanging out with a bunch of halfbreeds?”
Behind me, Dom gave a low growl in his throat, and it was a dead ringer for hislion.
Danny shrugged. “I’m sleeping with the alpha. The sex is too good for me to leave,” he confessed, and I found myself fighting agrin.
Super-big badass druid got really uncomfortable then. Like the fact that he was in the presence of not one, but two gay men was too much to handle. He backed up a step, looking at Danny with a disgusted look, and I decided right then and there that I would train to be a badass druid killing machine just so I could wipe people like this from the face of theearth.
The orange misty magic crept back down my arm and into the hybrid druid’s hand then and he let go, looking at the king ofsteroids.
“She ain’t a dragon. I dun know what she is, but she ain’t skyborn.” Heconcluded.
I released the breath I had been holding, but Steven was still eyeing me withspeculation.
“She a mutt?” Steven asked, and I tried to suppress agrowl.
The smaller man shrugged. “She ain’t pureblood. Lesgo.”
Keegan was back at the doorway with Gear, both holding guns. Keegan looked to be masking his pain, but I could see sweat beading hisbrow.
“Have a nice day,” Keegan called out as the men retreated into their black sedan and peeled out of thedriveway.
We all sighed then, taking a moment to justbreathe.
“Keegan, are you alright?” Loganasked.
Danny stepped up to the porch and Keegan waved everyone off. “He broke my collarbone. It willheal.”
Danny put on hand on his hip and glared Keegan down. Finally, Keegan walked out from the doorway and I noticed he had a slight limp. “I wouldn’t say no to some of that healingmagic.”
Danny made a humph noise. “Well, I am youremployeenow.”
Keegan growled lightly. “It’s not like that,” he whispered to Danny, but Danny just ignored him and rubbed his palms together, making some yellow misty magic rise up, before laying it on Keegan’schest.
The moment Danny’s palms touched Keegan’s chest, his face relaxed and he sighed inrelief.
“Won’t he need to see Eva? To take a scale for healing like Nadine?” I whispered to Logan. I had remembered Logan telling me in Nadine’s loft that she would die without ahealing.
Keegan had excellent hearing, because he was the one who answered: “He didn’t hit me with magic intended to kill. It was more of a shock, a slap in the face for cocking my gun. I’m not wasting a scale on this, and neither of you can shift to get a scale with druids in town. I’ll be fine. A bit of pain won’t killme.”
“It might knock some sense into you,” Dannymuttered.
Keegan just grinned. “So you’re staying with me for the sex? Guess we better start havingsex.”
Danny smacked his collarbone lightly and Keegan winced. “Please. You know I just said that to get that big homo hater’s panties in abunch.”
I laughed at “homo hater.” I liked Danny; he was a breath of freshair.
Logan shook his head in disbelief. “They had ahybrid.”
Danny chuckled and left Keegan on the porch, waving a hand at Logan. “That old thing. Oh, honey, he wouldn’t know a donkey from his own ass. He didn’t even notice that when I clapped loudly I set off a counter spell. He’sharmless.”
