Page 132 of Sigils & Spells

Everyone stared at Jo.

“How do you know that?” Pippa finally demanded.

Tempest shrugged. “I just know. I felt it like a shiver across my skin. She was there and I didn’t get the chance to meet her so we should go back.”

Natalie sighed. “The things we do for you, Jo. Fine. Everyone back to the diner.”

Pippa turned and headed for her car. She’d just settled H.P. on the passenger seat when Jo opened that door, scooped him into her arms and settled down with him in her lap. At the same time, Amaryllis climbed into the backseat.

“What’s going on?” Pippa asked suspiciously.

“You’re driving us to the diner, of course,” Jo said.

Pippa scowled. “I was planning to go home.”

“You need to eat,” Amaryllis said softly from the backseat, “and I don’t want to go back there without you.”

Pippa sighed.

She couldn’t possibly say no to Amaryllis, who tended to cling to each of them in different ways.

When they were out in public, Amaryllis preferred to be close to Pippa for some reason. She’d actually been surprised Amaryllis had agreed to go into town when Pippa had refused.

“Fine.” She started the car and drove out of the lot, following Morana’s truck back to the diner.

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“Tellme again why we drove over an hour, just so that we could check out an animal shelter.” Corwin looked at Jared like he was crazy.

Frankly, Jared couldn’t exactly disagree with that assessment.

This was a stupid idea.

Still, he was here and he wasn’t about to give up now.

“Come on,” he said impatiently. “Let’s check out the kittens.”

Corwin raised an eyebrow. “You, alpha wolf of our pack, want a kitten?”

Damn.

This reallywasa stupid idea.

Jared set his hands on his hips and glared at the shelter in front of him.

Corwin snickered. “This I’ve got to see. Well, come on then. I’m sure the pack will be delighted when we return with a kitten.”

What they found inside the shelter, though, was just depressing.

So many unwanted cats and dogs everywhere. Even a rabbit or two.

“Now I’m just depressed,” Corwin muttered.

Jared nodded. He wanted to adopt them all, which was ridiculous. An alpha wolf and his pack taking in an entire shelter’s worth of domesticated animals?

It was absurd.

He was ready to leave empty-handed, mostly because he couldn’t decide and it was easier to leave all of them behind than it was to just take one, but then he saw Chester.

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