Kathleen's POV:
After an hour of wandering in foreboding woods no one in their right mind would ever enter willingly, I checked the map again.
‘This is a bad idea,’ Era, my wolf, said with a snort via mind-link. ‘We don't have enough time. We have to attend Dominic’s party.’
‘I know. But I can’t take her pestering me any longer, and I want answers. So we just need to get this over with.’
My brother, Alpha Salem, was still with Alpha Dominic, and I wished I was as well. Dominic’s name alone sparked emotions within me no one else’s ever could. But those were emotions I didn’t want to face. I shook my head and did my best to bury those feelings as I continued my search for the witch’s house.
It felt like an eternity before I finally found it nestled deep in the forest. Thick overgrown vines and underbrush surrounded it so that nature appeared to be consuming it. A bubbling black cauldron sat in a single open area out front, the only indication someone lived there. The few visible windo
