Silas rolled his eyes and then raised his wrists, showing both of us the cuffs. “I’ve got Greywolf power now, so don’t get any ideas.” He glanced at the knife that now lay on the floor to reiterate what he meant, and Maddy and I both nodded.
We scurried off to our shared room and shut the door, then Maddy put on music and the box fan, as we always did when we didn’t want Silas eavesdropping.
“What happened? How are you alive? The curse?” Maddy looked at me again as if she were seeing a ghost.
I shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe when I took the curse from Lena forty years ago it didn’t work, and Leah just…”
My throat tightened. I hadn’t allowed myself to even think it, much less speak it out loud until now. Forty years ago, when Wren had pulled the curse from Lena and reunited her with her power, something had gone wrong, but that something had not ended my life last night, so I was grateful. But had it ended Leah’s? My heart hurt at the thought.
Maddy shook her head. “Who cares why. I’m just glad you’re still here.” She reached out and held my hand.
“Maddy… I saw them again. Your half-brothers and sisters-in-law.”
Maddy stiffened. “Were they okay? Did you see Castiel?”
I nodded. “And I had a memory with him… of marrying him… but also of being intimate with Brayden.” I shook my head in confusion.
Maddy gasped. “That can’t be. Brayden would never cheat on Lena with Wren.”
I nodded. “It’s like I was WrenandI was Lena. Like I had memories from the both of them.”
Her hand froze in mine and I watched as chills rushed up her arms. She dropped my hand and then grasped my shoulders, peering deeply into my eyes. “This makes sense.”
I frowned. “What do you mean?”
“I think it’s you. I think youareLena.”
Her admission shocked me.
“Why?”
She smiled. “I’m not as old as Brayden is, I wasn’t there for the beginning of their relationship, but I’ve seen them both through many lives together and they have this magnetic attraction about them. The same one I witness with you and him.”
My heart fluttered in my chest. I wanted to be Lena.So badly.
“How? I remembered marrying Castiel.”
Maddy chewed at her bottom lip. “When Wren tried to remove the killing curse from Lena and reunite her with her powers, she was injured. What if… I dunno, she messed up both of your memories?”
It was a fair point, one I hadn’t really considered… Could I be Lena? Was Leah having memories of both Castiel and Brayden too? My gut clenched with jealousy at the thought.
“Brayden has been alone with Leah for eight months… and she has memories, what if he—?”
Maddy shook her head. “His heart beats for Lena alone. He won’t do anything until he is sure who she is.”
I didn’t want to tell her he’d already kissed me and picked me knowing Iwasn’tLena. But I nodded, needing to believe this for now. I needed to have hope.
Maddy eyed the cuffs on my wrist. “So you got to keep your power?”
I dipped my head. “Sort of, but he controls it.” I frowned.
Maddy grinned. “Not while he’s asleep.”
I raised one eyebrow. “What are you suggesting?”
Maddy leaned in closer to me. The music and the fan noise surrounded the room and she spoke in such low tones that it was barely a whisper. “At night, I train you in how to use your Greywolf power.”
My heartbeat picked up in my chest. “You can do that?”
