Page 104 of Wind with a Chance of Wolfsbane

“Who in the hell is this?” she demanded as she answered.

I groaned. “Mina, it’s me.”

Jonathan reached up and cupped my breasts. He squeezed them gently.

I swatted playfully at his hands as I shook my head. I didn’t need him getting frisky when I was trying to deal with my irate twin.

“Willa, where in the hell have you been? I thought you were dead. You never called me back!” Mina shouted. “You promised to call me!”

Cringing, I closed my eyes for a moment. “I know. I’m sorry. I swear I meant to, but time got away from me.”

“It got away from you?” she asked, her voice managing to get higher. “I talked to you nine hours ago. You couldn’t find a spare moment in nine freaking hours to let me know that you’re not dead? And whose phone are you calling from? Why does it say Harker? Who the hell is Harker?”

Jonathan skimmed his hand down my stomach to my sex.

I caught his hand, halting his actions.

He winked and tried his very best to initiate another round of sex.

As much as I wanted to be with him again, I needed to calm down my sister first before she spontaneously turned into black mist at Yale. Anyone could see it happen. That would be very bad. “Take a breath, Mina. I’m fine. I swear it. I, um, well, kind of met someone and spent the day with him. Time got away from me. But I swear I’m okay, and Astria is fine. There is nothing to worry about here in Grimm Cove. False alarm. I promise. You can stop trying to figure out how to book flights. I’ll head back your way in a couple of hours. I’ll be there by morning.”

“Where are you right this minute?” she demanded. “You’re not at the Gallows Lane house, are you?”

I bit my inner cheek and considered lying to her. Sadly, she’d hear it in my voice. “I’m inthecave outside of campus, by the waterfall?”

“The cave we chained you in?” she asked, her voice going up in pitch again.

“Yes.”

“And you’re with someone?” she asked, suddenly sounding perfectly reasonable rather than like her head might spin at any minute.

My gaze collided with Jonathan’s.

He licked his lips and touched between my legs again.

I snorted and tried to hide it behind a cough. “Um, yes. I’m with someone.”

“A male someone?” she countered.

I stiffened. “Yes.”

“Need I remind you what happened the last time I left you in that cave, and you happened upon a male?” she asked, still sounding incredibly rational and calm.

“This isn’t like that,” I stated, trying to keep my voice in line.

“Uh-huh,” she replied. “You know what, Willa, why don’t you call me back when you get a second?”

“Are you sure? You sound mad, but like you’re hiding just how mad you are,” I said.

“I’m totally fine,” she replied, but I didn’t believe her for a second.

“Okay. I love you, and I’m sorry. Don’t be mad. I didn’t get dead.”

She snorted and then hung up on me.

I gave Jonathan his phone back. “She’s less than pleased with me.”

Jonathan cast his phone aside without a second glance at it, his gaze never leaving me as he reached between us and adjusted himself so that he was lined up perfectly with me.

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