Page 102 of Marked By the Pack
I rolled my eyes. “You love being right.”
“No, I just didn’t want you to dismiss them because they’re werecats. Because I’m dating a vampire. I get it. That initial urge to run away.”
I laughed. “Yeah, you went right to the train station when you found out, I remember.”
She smiled. “I’m glad you spoke to Otto. I’m glad you’re giving a relationship with them a chance. But next time just give me a heads up, okay? You really scared me tonight. A couple of times.”
“I’m sorry. I promise to give you a heads up next time.”
Emma exhaled slowly. “Good.”
“I have a boyfriend,” I said with a smile. “Several of them.”
She laughed. “I’m really happy for you.”
“I’m really happy for you too. How are you and Callum doing though? Because Kebe was flirting with himhard.”
“I know, right?” Emma lowered her voice. “What the hell was that?”
I shook my head. “Some women, am I right?”
“Well, Callum’s assured me that he’s not interested in her. We actually had a really good chat tonight after Kebe went to bed. My jealous paranoid side reared its ugly head and we had it all out. Speaking of which…I talked to Callum about a cure for his vampirism. He says he’s searched everywhere. All over the world for the past couple of centuries. And he doesn’t want me to waste my time searching for something that doesn’t exist…”
“Well you don’t have to waste your time searching for something that doesn’t exist. Because itdoesexist. I talked to King and he knows of a cure. It’s actually a cure for vampiresandwerecats.”
“Wait, seriously?”
“Yeah. I tried to bring it up to Otto tonight, but he acted similarly to Callum. I think he just wants me to accept him the way he is. And I do. But…”
“You want to cure him if you can.”
I nodded.
“I completely get it. I didn’t even think about the fact that I might be hurting Callum’s feelings by asking him to change back.”
“Exactly.”
Emma stared at me. I could tell what she was thinking before she even said it.
“But you still want to know how to do it, don’t you?” I asked.
“I can’t help it,” Emma said. “Of course I want to know. If Callum searched for over 200 years for a cure, he clearly wants it. And I want it for him. Well…selfishly for me too. Is that so terrible?”
“No. I want the same thing. So get this. There’s a coin. With an Anubis head on it. Honestly, it sounds a lot like the coin that’s on the back of the guys’ pocket watch. Do you remember if it had an Anubis head on it?”
Emma shook her head. “No. There were etchings of symbols on it. But nothing like that.”
“I figured that would be too good to be true. Plus the one we’re looking for is silver, not gold. I really want to look at their bank vault filled with relics again. But I also don’t necessarily want to bring up the idea of a cure until I know for sure I can find it. I don’t want Otto or the rest of the guys to think I don’t accept them. Because I do.”
Emma nodded. “Yeah. I don’t think Callum would approve of me looking for this either. He’s also worriedabout what the cure might do to him since he’s technically so old...”
“It’s a cure. I don’t think anything bad would happen.”
“Well, if it really could cure all of them safely…”
“Then we gotta try,” I said. “Right?”
Emma kept nodding. “Right. Okay. I definitely want to look in that vault. But that’s a whole different issue since you just started dating them. Immediately snooping is bad girlfriend behavior.”
