Chapter 10

Parker’s POV    

I can’t believe Caren still wants to protect the humans, even after everything they put Lottie through. There was no need for what that girl and her friends had done to Lottie. I am very surprised she stayed so calm. Especially after seeing her in action the other night.    

Caren, being a wolf/witch hybrid, is different. I have never met a witch before. I was always told to avoid them, as they are an angry, selfish species who only think of their coven. Historically, there has always been disagreement and fighting between the species, so the two avoid each other at all costs.    

But Caren isn’t like the witches I have heard about. She protected Lottie. She defended her not with magic but with her fists. As a wolf, she is weak. She is probably on a par with a human. I like the pair of them and not just because I think Lottie is Maddox’s mate. They are different.    

The afternoon was quite amusing in this high school, though. The girls were flirting like crazy with me. But compared to the boys in the school, I am a lot nicer to look at. Wolves are usually taller and more muscular than humans. I played along, listening to their small talk, accepting their small token gifts and their phone numbers, but there was only one girl I had my eyes on. Lottie just sat at the back of the classroom with her head in her books for all the classes.    

I can’t imagine what Caren would do if I let anything happen to Lottie. Then again, I can’t imagine what Maddox is going to do when he finds out what happened to Lottie.    

Finally, at the end of the day, I asked Lottie if she needed a ride home. “No thanks, I need the walk. I need to let off some steam, especially after what happened today.” She replies.    

“Your sister will kick my ass if I don’t get you home safe.” I was hoping to put her on a guilt trip, and it worked as she turned and got into my SUV. She gave me directions. We ended up at a house in the middle of nowhere, a few miles from the school. The house was smaller than our garage back home, but you could easily live a quiet life here.    

I got out of the SUV to walk her to her house. As we walked down the path, an electrical shock hit me. “Mom, let the barrier down. We have a guest.” Lottie shouted. “Sorry about that, I forget it’s even there.” she says laughing at me. The bitch.    

She encouraged me to carry on walking with her. I was nervous as I passed through the ‘barrier’ again. I didn’t want another shock. On the porch, I noticed a woman with her arms crossed standing beside Caren. She didn’t look happy. “Hi.” I said to her.    

    

Millie’s POV    

“I am not happy about you being suspended, Caren. But I understand why you did it.” It’s true, I really understood. That girl has had it coming for a long time. But what that stupid girl probably didn’t realize was that the physically weaker sister hit her. If Lottie lost control, I don’t think she would have had much of a face left.   

“Mom, let the barrier down.” I heard Lottie’s voice shout. Why would she need me to do that? Me and Caren made our way to the porch. A boy, with my daughter, I had to look twice. Where has he appeared from? She knows better than to trust strangers and to ask for them to be let through our protective barrier. As if she read my mind, Caren commented, “That’s Parker, the boy I was telling you about. He had better have looked after her today or I will kick his ass.”      

I say a chant, which allows him to enter my protective barrier, trusting both my daughter’s judgement. They both walked up to me, laughing. “Mom, this is Parker, he’s like me.” Lottie said with a smile.    

“Anything else happen today?” Caren said, walking down to Parker.     

“Yeah, I got 9 girls phone numbers,” she punched his chest, “I mean with Lottie. As if I care about anyone else.”    

My girls are talking to him like they have known him for years, not hours. “What the hell is going on? Can someone explain things slowly to me, please?”     

The girls explained everything to me. “Parker, may I have a quiet word in the house, please?” I asked him nicely, making him feel comfortable. I walked ahead of him into my house. He was a lot taller than me, and it took a lot of my magic to pin him to the wall out of the girl’s sight.    

“Why are you being nice to them, if you are going to kill them?” I said to him angrily. I would have yelled, but I didn’t want the girls to hear me. He looks petrified as he is straining against the wall. “My brother sent me. He thinks Lottie is his mate.”    

That’s a revelation. Who is his brother? I wonder. I couldn’t let Lottie miss out on the chance of a fated mate. “If you or your brother are trying to trick us, I will kill you both. Do you understand?” He nodded his head once. So, I released him. He fell to the floor, coughing and spluttering. I stood over him. “My babies are my world to me and I will not see them harmed. I will kill for them and I would die for them.” He is just staring at me. “You had better get your brother here then and he had better be right. Your life depends on it.”     

    

Parker’s POV    

Now I know why we don’t interact with witches and I have just met a mean one. Maddox had better be right, or I will kill him. In fact, I would let her kill him. Hopefully, she will be satisfied with his blood and not mine.    

I mind link my brother, but I am not sure if it will work as we are so far apart. But I will try. “Hey Maddox, fancy meeting the monster-in-law?” I asked, hoping he could hear me.