Page 88 of Wolf Touched

She raised her brows. “You talk to them?”

“It’s the vibrations of my power. They understand me. But my power is drained, and I can’t talk to them.”

“You’re more surprising every day.” She pointed at her house. “Go. The first room to the left is a spare bedroom the two of you can rest in. Get sleep. We need you and your mate in good form tomorrow.”

“But the dead—”

“Are ours to take care of.” Her face softened as if she could see me for the first time. “If we need to, we’ll get your friends involved, but we like to send our coven members off personally and pray to the goddess for our enemies.”

Maybe we were both seeing a side of each other that we needed to tonight because everything she’d said proved she was the complete opposite of Olwyn.

I nodded and headed toward her house, far too tired to argue. Raffe limped beside me, his pain shining through.

I can’t shift back to human form tonight,he linked.

That’s more than all right with me.As long as he was beside me, I’d take him in any form.You’re a lot softer with fur.

His body shook with silent laughter.

As we walked to the priestess’s house, I noticed the sizable cracks in her yard and that her house had stress fractures in the wood from the day she’d attacked my mate. She must have protected her house with magic but hadn’t been able to fix her yard.

Dru had left the door to the house open, and when we walked in, he had Sedona on the blue couch and was tending to her wounds.

“Do you need—” I started.

“Get some rest.” He didn’t stop removing the bandage I’d put on her. “I suspect you’re the one who put this bandage on her, which prevented her from being worse off. You’ve done enough.”

The scent of rosemary eased the heavy copper scent of blood as we walked through the living room to the first door on the left.

As soon as we entered the room, I slid to the floor. Raffe cuddled up beside me, and I moved so that I lay on his uninjured side, our fated-mate bond thrumming. Within seconds, we were out.

A phone rang,startling me awake. I sat up, my body sore like I’d lifted heavy weights. I jumped to my feet as Raffe ran out the bedroom door.

The sound came again, and we rushed into the living room. Sedona was passed out on the couch with Keith hovering over her in human form. He linked,It’s Sedona’sphone.

I don’t have time to shift back and answer,Raffe replied.Sky, I need you to see who’s calling her and why.

A lump formed in my throat, but I ignored it. I reached into the pocket of her dress and removed the cell.

Momrolled across the screen.

My stomach dropped, but not wanting it to go to voice mail, I answered it. “Hello?”

The phone line went silent. Then the older woman asked, “Who is this?”

I sucked in a breath, but my voice remained calm. “Skylar Greene.”

A sob broke through the phone. “You may have the animals on your side, but I won’t bow to someone who killed my daughter.”

“She’s not dead,” I bit out, hoping to catch her before she did something rash like hang up.

“Oh, really?” She laughed bitterly. “Then let me talk to her.”

Shit. Of course she’d be passed out. I nudged her arm. “She can’t talk right now.” I winced, knowing how that must sound from her side.

“That’s what I suspected.” Her voice hardened. I heard her put down the phone.

I didn’t want them to hate us more, so I had to do something. “We want to help you break away from King Jovian.”

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