“Let’s go,” Brock urged me as Sabine led the way to the house. Never before had the walk back seemed so long, nor had I ever wasted an opportunity as fine as this one. Brock’s beautiful body was on full display, yet all I could think about was our baby and how much I needed to hear her heartbeat.
8Majorly Fucked
“So?”Brock asked the moment Sabine pressed the ultrasound wand to my fox belly. Relaying through my telepathic link with Brock, I’d made her drape a sheet over my foxy bits even though Brock argued that there was nothing to be shy about. Yeah, I might be in the shape of an animal, but I was still a woman with dignity.
I was lying on Brock’s bed with my paws in the air, craning my neck to make out the ultrasound machine. If I couldn’t make sense of the blobs when I was a human, there was no chance I would as a fox, but I still tried.
“Is everything okay with the baby?” Brock asked again, before Sabine had the chance to answer.
“Hmm,” she said, and I had to resist the urge for every muscle in my body to clench. “Yeah, it looks like the baby is doing fine.”
I let my head roll back onto the comforter and let out a breath I hadn’t even realized I’d been holding. Brock sank heavily onto the bed next to me. Leaning down, he whispered next to my ear. “You hear that, Ev? The baby is fine.”
I might’ve been annoyed that his whisper, while I was in fox form, was akin to him shouting, and he should have realized that. But he sounded so damn happy that I couldn’t help but feel the same.
‘Evie! Get over here. It’s an emergency!’Cass called out through our connection, and I snapped to attention, rolling onto my stomach, getting tangled in the sheet for a moment before breaking free of it, and then jumping down to the floor.
‘I’m on my way.’I was already making my way out of the room, my nails clicking as they hit the tile floor of the hallway. Oh God, were more vampires attacking?
‘Good. Try to make it fast. Willemena is here and, well, from what she says, your situation is pretty fucking urgent.’
How the fuck had the witch gotten here so soon?
“What is it, Eve?” Brock asked, sprinting until he was right alongside me in human form.
‘The witch is already there.’
“Really? That’s ... all right. Then let’s get you back to yourself. With any luck, you’ll be back to my sexy woman before we know it.”
And before my ex-boyfriend arrives. But I sure as hell was keeping that thought to myself. I didn’t bother telling Brock that something serious was happening. He’d find out soon enough.
‘I’m coming,’ I projected to Cass. ‘How the hell did Willemena make it to the cabin so damn fast?’I clattered across the tile of the dining area when it hit me.‘She can materialize, can’t she?’
‘Sure can. Evie, it was fucking nuts. We were standing around the porch waiting for my sexy T to arrive, when Willemena just materialized out of thin air. Literally. Molly about crapped her pants from the excitement of it.’
‘I bet she did. I wish I’d been there to see it.’
Gran hadn’t been able to materialize. The ability was reserved for incredibly powerful witches, and even then, only a select few who were predisposed to the tricky magic. I mean, the witch’s body got pulled apart to a cellular level before being reconstructed again. If the witch got one single thing wrong, well, they’d never be the same again, literally. Even of those few select witches who could do it, few had the guts. It was a tool reserved for emergencies.
‘Move those little legs as fast as you can, girl. This witch is hard to deal with.’
‘Entertain her with your superb sense of fashion until I get there.’
‘Sadly, I don’t think that’s going to cut it.’
A fluorescent pink furry demon imp with horns and wings? Yeah, there was nothing more distracting than Cass.
Running out the open patio door, I launched across Brock’s back lawn and down the hill as fast as I could. Brock was right beside me.
“Finally! There you are!” Willemena called out from the deck of my porch the second Brock and I entered earshot, descending the hill at a full run. The witch proceeded to glare at us, hands on hips, long silver hair and hippy skirt whipping in the breeze, until I was at her feet.
“Took you long enough,” the witch grumbled.
‘Told you,’Cass said.‘She woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, that’s for damn sure.’
“Follow me inside,” Willemena said, pointing a bony finger at me. She gave Cass and Molly the squinty eye. “I guess you two can also come.” Rows of silver bangles chimed along her wrists when she shook her hands at Brock and my two warrior protectors. “You three can wait outside. I don’t know you.”
Brock looked like he’d been punched in the gut. “I’m her alpha and the father of her child. I’m coming with her. It’s my duty to protect her.”
