Page 14 of Hunted on Halloween

“Yes, I understand. And yes, I agree. And you’re right. You’re not the interlopers here. We are. And to try to treat you as anything else except a native who deserves to be on this planet, in this world, would be a crime.”

“Your people are capable of many crimes, but that is not what we’re going to focus on right now. We’re going to save this world and then, well, let the fight begin.”

Tia stood on shaky legs and put on her underclothes and then a pair of jeans with a long-sleeved T-shirt and a jacket.

Tieran dressed in what he was wearing when he came in. Once they had their shoes on, they walked to the front door. Standing on her porch was a werewolf with red, crazed eyes.

She took several steps back until she was standing behind Tieran. Tia figured this werewolf was one of his, so hopefully he could do whatever it took to talk reason to him. The werewolf growled and scented the air.

He took a step back and then came forward, scented the air again.

Tieran's body expanded and grew taller, making Tia tremble at the sight. He was becoming the monster of her nightmares right before her eyes.

The werewolf attacked, and Tieran met him. His teeth elongated and his nails were sharp and black.

He was frightening, although she knew he would never hurt her, but he could have killed so many people at that moment. The fight moved from her front porch to the sidewalk in front. The werewolf looked for Tieran’s throat.

Tieran ducked and flung him over his shoulder. The werewolf stood and came at him again. Tieran caught him around the waist and flung him as far as he could.

The werewolf looked up, shaking his head, then growled. His eyes got redder. Tia knew she had to do something.

Tieran was ducking, moving, and avoiding all the fatal blows his opponent tried to land while simply tossing the werewolf away from him. But that wolf wasn’t going to give up because there was no sanity or reasoning in his eyes.

“Stop,” Tia screamed, both hands going in front of her.

Both males turned to look at her as fire came from her right hand. It covered the wolf, making him scream, but she didn’t smell burned hair or flesh, and he didn’t look like he was burning, but he was in pain. The fire made its way into him. Finally, he dropped to the ground, his hand coming up to his head, his eyes looking up.

They were brown and clear.

“What did you do?” The werewolf asked Tia, accusing her, and then he looked up and he saw Tieran. “My king.” He prostrated himself on the ground in front of him. “What was I doing? Kill me now, my king. Kill me, please.”

“I refused to kill you when you were crazed. Why would I do it now that you are sane?”

The wolf looked at Tia again and scented the air. “My queen.”

Tieran turned and stretched his hands out towards his mate “This is my queen, Tia.” She took his hand and stepped beside him.

“We are people once more,” the wolf cried.

“We have always been people, simply a little broken for a while,” Tieran told him. “Brice, meet your queen.”

“Hello, your majesty.”

“Hi Brice, drop the ‘your majesty’ and let’s try to save our people. By the way, you will stay with us,” Tia said. “We are goingto find a way to right the wrong that happened to you and your people.”

Tia thought the best place to start was at home. Just thinking of it had butterflies storming in her stomach, wanting to get out. She needed to talk to her mother, and taking a vampire and a shifter werewolf with her wasn’t exactly the thing she wanted to do.

She couldn’t imagine her mother’s expression when she turned up outside of her door. Then again, if she was a witchling the way Tieran kept calling her and then the being and his father also called her witchling, that meant her mother had some explaining to do.

Was that the reason she never wanted anyone to know what Tia was capable of? And did that mean that her mother was a witch or her absent father? Yep, she was going to see Mother dearest.

“I think the best thing to do is to go see my mother because it seems like everything started there.” She cringed and waited for them to say no or to come up with a more appropriate plan.

“I agree, Tieran said. “Going to your mother’s house seems like the perfect place to start.” Tia Nodded and gulped, hoping that her mother would have some information for them.

She also couldn’t help wondering if her mother knew about all of this. Why would she leave Tia alone by herself on Halloween?

“What time are you pulled back across the veil?” Tia asked.

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