“What now?” Sophie groaned, watching our loved-updisplay.
Logan was grinning ear to ear. “We can speak into each other’sminds.”
Sophie made a gagging noise and Nadine reached out and smacked her arm hard, shutting herup.
“And this is funny how?” I asked him, because it was totally freaking me out. Talk about a privacy violation. Mate or not, I wanted to be able to control who was in myhead!
He shrugged. “Because now I can bug you no matter how far away youare.”
I stepped in closer to him, all thoughts of freaky mate mind melding gone. “I won’t leave like that again,” I said it to him, but then I looked at everyone. My pack. I looked each one of them in the eyes, whether human or animal. “I’m sorry. I won’t ever do that again,” I told themall.
When my eyes finally rested on Keegan, he nodded and that was that. I wasforgiven.
12
WHILE LOGANAND I were in our lovable mate bubble, Danny had been looking at the yellow shimmering magic wall that Eva had built aroundus.
“Little FYI, we’re going to need an exit plan,” Danny said from the edge of the alley. I could see now that Jeanine was weaving her own magic into the wall, and beside her was Steven, the two other druids from Flagstaff, and a shitload of other scary looking people. They stood beyond Eva’s transparent yellow wall and glared at us as if sizing up theirdinner.
Eva growled. “Of all the people you went to, it had to beher.”
I flinched. “Yeah … about that. I asked her to do a spell that would make it impossible for you guys to find me, but I think she did something else. I can’t …shift.”
Eva’s whole body froze and she spun to face me. “Tell me you didnotgive her yourblood.”
Ohshit.
“She did,” Logan groaned, and I turned to face him with wideeyes.
“Hey! Get out of my head!” I scoldedhim.
‘Traitor,’I pushed at himmentally.
He just gave me a look that said, ‘I told you to never give a sorcerer yourblood.’
“Oh, Sloane! Honey, you have no idea what you’ve done.” Eva was softer now, approaching me like I was a rabid animal about to attack. Her hands were out and she walked slowly, using a calm voice. It scared the shit out ofme.
“W-what did I do?” My voice stuttered as the fear took hold ofme.
“A spell bound in blood is permanent,” she said with finality, and the walls of the alley started to spin.Permanent?
Logan stepped closer to Eva. “No. There has to be another way. If she can’t shift, she can’t fight, she can’t fly. She willdie.”
The yellow spell wall cracked behind us and Eva looked resigned. “We will deal with this later. I’ll figure something out. There is one way I know of, but it’sdangerous.”
“Umm, Eva!” Danny yelled, his voice jumping up two octaves, and Eva spun with her hands out, throwing yellow magic like crazy, trying to repair thewall.
“Get us a way out of here!” she roared behindus.
Logan reached out and took my hand. “Does your purple magic stillwork?”
I thought of how I had blasted the druid into the wall and nodded. “I just can’tshift.”
Logan cursed. “Which makes it easier for the druids to catch you. Alright, let’s get out of here and we will figure this out. Don’tworry.”
‘Don’t worry? If I die, you die!’I screamed into hishead.
His eyes went green. “No one is dying. Let’s get the hell out ofhere.”
