Shecame closer to me and sniffed. “Witches’ wine? That’s been illegal for decades.”She shook her head in anger, then her eyes rested on the ring. “That probablysaved your life. It absorbed all of the dark magic.”
Wha?I tried to stare at the ring but it was blurry. They were throwing dark magicat me? I didn’t even feel it. I should go back and tip that lady.
Sylviaplaced an arm around me and dragged me out the door. I heard screaming comingfrom the entrance to the convention center and saw a commotion. Blinkingrapidly, I tried to clear the image and see better.
“Shit.”Sylvia never cussed. “Calm down, Alpha! She’s fine,” Sylvia roared and hervoice was magically amplified to the entire hall. She walked me quickly to thefront of the dining hall but my feet kept tripping and I fell. Suddenly, Adrianpicked me up and jogged me to the front where I could see that the twinwarlocks guarding the front door were bloody and unconscious. Kai and Maxlooked feral, fists bloody and fur rippling along their half-human forms. Kai’smustache and glasses were long gone. The second Kai saw me in Adrian’s arms herushed towards me. Adrian sat me down quickly and backed away as I tried tokeep my face calm.
Kaipulled me into his arms and took a deep breath. “What’s that smell?” he roaredas everyone looked on.
Sylviahad caught up now. “Witches’ wine. It’s illegal. I will take care of thematter. She wasn’t hurt.” Sylvia held his gaze.
Kai’seyes went yellow, he was breathing deeply, trying to control himself. Horribletiming, but I busted out laughing.
Maxcouldn’t keep a straight face. “You’re three sheets to the wind,” he declared.
Kaigrowled, sending witches stumbling backward as he scooped me up and exited thedining hall with Max trailing behind us.
“Yousmell good,” I told Kai and winked. His face was blank, eyes yellow. We got tothe car and I made him put me down. Max reached over and opened my door as Ilooked over at him. Max. Dirty blond hair, blue eyes, rock-hard build.
“Yera gud looking guy, Max,” I told him as his eyes widened and his face went red.
“Areyou trying to get me killed?” Max looked horrified.
Ilaughed as the veins bulged in Kai’s neck. “What? Max is gud looking, not ashot as Kai but still.”
“Okay,Aurora, enough.” Kai pushed me into the back seat and I lay down laughing. Man,car seats were so comfy. That was the last thought I had before sleep took me.
Witches’ Wine
Iawoke with a headache from hell and all the memories of last night. Shit. Mythroat was so dry, my head pounded. I squinted against the light filteringthrough the curtains. Kai wasn’t next to me.
‘Areyou awake?’Kai asked.
‘Shhh… turn it down.’I grabbed myhead.
Thedoor opened and Kai entered with water.
Iprepared for the bitchfest that was undoubtedly going to come down on me. Kaispoke softly. “After hours of being completely livid with you, I’ve decidedthat last night wasn’t your fault, so I’m not mad at you.”
Hehanded me the water and I squinted as my head pounded, trying to work out whathe had just said. No fight? Seriously? Yes!
Isighed. “Thanks,” I whispered. “Can I have some Advil? Like an entire bottle?”
Kaishook his head. “Won’t help. Sylvia said to take a bath in two cups of salt andlavender oil.” He said Sylvia’s name with anger. She probably got thebitchfest.
Isipped some water, letting the cool liquid quench my parched throat. Then Islowly stood and stumbled to the bathroom to draw a bath, tossing the salt andlavender in. The sound of the rushing water was too loud, so I plugged my ears.My thoughts went back to last night. So I got drugged with some illegal spellwine? Bitches. They probably planned the whole thing. What were they going todo to me in that bathroom? I shivered thinking about it. I hadn’t been able tochange into my wolf. The thought made my eyes widen. What kind of wine was this?
Ieased into the bath and immediately felt some of the head pounding dissipate. Istared in shock as the water became deep purple. The salt was pulling thewitches’ wine out of my skin. Whoa. Note to self. Thank Sylvia. I soaked untilI felt somewhat normal again and then drained the purple water. Had I calledMax hot last night? I smacked my forehead and changed into skinny jeans and atight tank top. Padding out of the room, I went to find Kai. He was with Max inthe backyard working out. Since Jeremy and Alek had taken over the basement,our workouts were limited.
“Feelingbetter?” Kai stopped doing pushups and stood to greet me.
“Muchbetter,” I told him and turned to Max who was avoiding looking at me. “Max,about last night.” I started to apologize and his hands went up, face red.
“Didn’thappen as far as I am concerned.” He looked nervously at Kai who grinned.
Ichuckled. “Okay.” I glanced at my watch. It was midday. Wow, I must have slept eighteenhours.
“So,I talked to Sylvia about the incident last night.” Kai’s voice was full ofanger.
