Total pages in book: 202
Estimated words: 193561 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 968(@200wpm)___ 774(@250wpm)___ 645(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 193561 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 968(@200wpm)___ 774(@250wpm)___ 645(@300wpm)
“What? Does this mean Halla could come to the village?” Stacy asks.
“Could be,” Dani says. “Maybe someone is going to bring her to you guys. Maybe you’ll take her there after you find her. I don’t know, but I don’t think she’s with Wyatt right now based on how things have gone. I think she’s under a shield and I think you’ll find her but I think what’s in front of that is a shield for Halla but that you will reunite with her.”
Jase asks, “So, we’ve got my sister and Stacy’s brother on their way to the place Brody found the girls.”
“Maybe. But maybe not,” Dani corrects.
“And we’ve got Halla showing up in our neck of the woods, but we don’t know yet how she gets there. What do we do to deal with all that?”
“We don’t know if your sister will show up too, only that she’s most likely with him now, Jase,” Dani corrects.
“Let’s make a plan to see if we can catch up with Meadows tonight,” I say. “We’ll go to the massage parlor. Then have to see what happens with Halla Starling, I guess.”
“Wait,” Dani instructs. “Let’s join hands. I want you three to meditate on the positive. Positive thoughts. I want you to focus on having what you’ve earned delivered to you. Safety. Abundance. Okay? Do so until I tell you we’re good, then we can rise and break the circle.” She sets the Kleenex with the blood and the strand of hair on the tablet.”
“Okay,” Stacy agrees and grabs my hand. I grab Dani’s. She grabs Jase’s and Jase takes Stacy’s hand.
The Kleenex suddenly catches on fire before it turns to ash and a breeze picks up. I watch the ash from the Kleenex go left while the hair strand floats up and away in another direction.
And I suspect, though can’t be certain, that this is confirmation Halla Starling isn’t with Wyatt Meadows and Sherry Creed.
42
Grey
It’s been about six hours since four of the twenty-two remaining patients took the experimental drug Mitch brought in to counter that poison’s function and facilitate shifting. They’ve all now successfully shifted once.
Mitch is overseeing their care at the moment, Cat by his side. He offered it to the six sickest, but only four were willing to try it and to Mitch’s credit, he didn’t push. He also didn’t offer it to the kids, but they’re all out of their beds, including the little girl with one arm. They’re all running around playing with the other kids outside the schoolhouse. Linc was over there in wolf form playing ball with them until a few minutes ago.
“He’s gonna make a great father someday,” Stacy told me while she watched his wolf let the kids climb all over him.
“Definitely,” I agreed.
The four Silver Hills patients who have shifted are exhausted from it – it took a lot out of them, but they’ll attempt it again in a few more hours.
Stacy told Mitch earlier that the reception he’s getting from people here is down to fear mongering, which goes back to even before John Meadows’ rule, and every member of this pack has been afraid of the SCC for most of their lives because of exile from the original Silver Hills pack from Argentia Mountain in Alaska. I’ve never heard this lore and Mitch says he doesn’t know of it either.
Mitch gave a speech about how he’s just like we are, that he’s a retired alpha of his own pack, mentored his replacement, but also one of the wolf shifter representatives of the SCC and that he’s not only here to help, also to gather evidence to determine if Wyatt Meadows is guilty of crimes against his pack, which he would stand trial for.
This got murmurs churning among the crowd. Stacy won’t speak up for the SCC; she told Mitch directly in front of her people that she wants to believe Mitch is on the up and up but that not only did they grow up being taught to fear and distrust the Supernatural Council Collective, she also didn’t like what she’d heard they did to Riley Savage and Erica Young.
And me, Jase, and Linc all exchanged amused glances at this. I wanted to whoop in victory with pride at my mate standing her ground with a powerful SCC alpha shifter, looking him directly in the eyes and standing for what she believes without trembling, with a strong voice. It wasn’t long ago she wouldn’t look any alpha in the eyes unless commanded to do so.
I think her people appreciated it, too. She’s not just saying what people want to hear; she’s being real with them.
That said, Cat Savage did speak up for Mitch as a very qualified medical doctor and talked about numerous medical strides the SCC’s medical team have made for shifter and vampire illnesses. She told the room that she trusts Mitch with their medical care, that she trusts his advice without question looking after our own six-hundred plus member pack, and advised that this drug could help, allowing them to shift and therefore feel a hundred per cent sooner.