Zahara was still there, and Zoey was in the baby’s room. She was losing her mind. After delivering Isadora, she seemed to want her mate more than ever. Call it crazy hormones, or whatever it could be, she couldn’t stop craving what only he could do for her.
Zoey cleared her throat. “Zahara says she created a Blood Pact. That’s what you felt. I was linking with you. Oh, and our daughter is also a Witch Doctor. Goodbye!”
Zoey hung up before Dominic could yell into the phone. He was not going to be happy something else was going on. It seemed everything was getting crazy lately. Zoey and Dominic’s mating hadn’t been the easiest, but it was about the least crazy thing of any of the couples.
“He’s going to come home losing his mind if he doesn’t blow my–” Zoey’s phone blared with Dominic’s ringtone and she silenced it. “Spoke too soon. You’re going to be here when he returns home with two-thousand questions, right?”
“Look, it’s time for my tea. You’ve got t’e baby and all t’at on your ‘ands. Call if she t’rows anything out the window. Bye!”
“Wait!”
Zahara was gone, already stepping into the other plane to her house. Of course, Zoey couldn’t really bitch when she’d hung up on Dominic before he could ask anything. She just didn’t like confrontation, and Dominic could be intense.
Most of the time, she ended up sleeping for hours on end after he decided to “punish” her answer out of her. That was delicious as hell, but with the baby, they didn’t get the same time for that. Dominic was also good for tit-for-tat and leaving her unsatisfied and on edge over and over again when she had to stop to care for Isadora. No, she was not going to let that happen.
She just needed to call in reinforcements. She dialed Giuliana and waited.
“Zoey, Dominic already called. Not helping you out this time. See ya!”
“No. Wait.”
Didn’t matter. Giuliana was off the phone.
Dammit. Okay, who next?
“What did you do?”
Zoey gasped in mock horror. “I can’t believe you would think I did anything.”
Kalinda chuckled. “Zoey, you never call in the middle of the day and feign that level of ignorance without it being something you’ve done. I know you better than that, so spill it.”
Okay, maybe Kalinda did know Zoey pretty well. “I may have told Dominic some crazy news and hung up.”
“Oh, the ‘Zoey Drive-by.’”
“What?”
“That thing you do when you get asked questions or have something to say and then you leave or hang up before anyone can react.”
“You guys gave it a name?”
“Yup. Why do you need me?”
“I want you here by the time Dominic gets home, please.”
“Ah, sorry. No can do. You see, Dominic called and told me what happened. He also said not to help. Plus, remember those pound cakes you conned out of me when I was looking for Romano so I could find out if he loved me and he was already on the way? That time? Yeah, so … Goodbye!”
Zoey groaned in frustration as friend number two dipped out on her. They were no fair. None at all.
“Hehehe. I know who’s always in for a good time.” In desperation, Zoey dialed one more female who’d even hope to challenge Dominic to anything.
“You’ve reached Queen Cool-ass extraordinaire, Zoey. Kalinda told me that even if you offer me the right to post said conversation on SpellBook for the world to see, I’m not to say yes.”
“I’ll let you post that picture of Romano falling face first into Mr. Davidson’s ass when he hit him with the scooter,” Kalinda yelled in the background.
“Oh my gods, Kalinda. I knew you loved me. Mr. Davidson is always having accidents at the bingo hall and then needs the other wolves to come help him. Man, that mage is always giving me material. What’s he, a Level-1 Fire Mage, right? Oh gods, I’m going to caption it #FireInTheHole. This is golden. Anyway … later, Zoey!”
That made three hang-ups. Maybe Zoey needed to come up with a better way of delivering news to people and running away. It was obviously coming back to bite her in the ass.
