The European Council was made up of eight wolf shifters from eight different countries, and when they got out of the SUV and stepped up into Jack’s yard, Everly found herself feeling almost as nervous as she had been on the night when she turned into a wolf shifter herself.Almost.Some of them looked extremely serious, like they were quite angry they’d been summoned there to help with this situation. Others looked almost humorous, and other different circumstances, she might’ve been tempted to laugh at their outfits of their strange facial hair, or the way they stared at everyone like they’d never seen normal looking wolf shifters before.But she stayed next to Jack with her hand in his and hoped that none of them yelled at her for being the root cause of all of this drama. Not that she could blame them if they did. At the end of the day, it really was all her fault, wasn’t it?Actually… it was really sort of her mother’s fault since she was the one who had been the vic

Slate went upstairs with Maura, still wearing Jack’s face. So far, it seemed that the magic was working, and the girl was fooled into thinking he really was the Lichtwolf, her exboyfriend. The only problem was, he had no idea what they used to do. He didn’t know Jack well enough to even know what to talk about. He hated Jack, so it was difficult to even say anything that didn’t make him sound like a douchebag because he just wanted to say stupid things—that was all he ever heard when Jack was talking.As Maura took his hand and led him up the stairs, her mother called, “Maura, is everything okay?”“Everything is fine, Mom,” Maura said. “Jack is just upset because this stupid girl broke up with him. But we’re going to go upstairs and talk about it, and he’ll be feeling fine in no time.” Maura winked at him in a way that seemed way too sexual for someone who was talking to her mother about taking a boy t

“I have to kiss him?” Alyson asked, staring at Everly.“That’s what Lexi said,” Everly told her. “She thinks it’s a sleeping spell, and that’s the only way to wake him up.”Alyson’s expression didn’t change. “But what if she’s wrong, and that’s not what it is? What if I kiss him and nothing happens? Or what if I kiss him and something worse happens? Like I fall asleep? Or he turns into an… ogre or something?”“I think you might be reading too much into this, sis,” Will said. He seemed to be enjoying watching his older sister squirm over the possibility of having to kiss a Nachtwolf to wake him up from a sleeping spell. “Just plant one on him already and see what happens.”Alyson’s eyes traveled from the hallway where the three of them were standing back into the guest room where Slate had been taken when they’d carried him in. His parents were in the room with him, his mother wringing her hands with concern while her father rubbed her back and tried to keep her calm. The

“He was at the party?” Everly repeated what Su said. “Slate was at the party where you were turned into a werewolf?”Su’s head bobbed up and down again. “That’s right. He was with the guy that bit me.”“You’re sure it wasn’t him though, right?” Everly asked as she felt Jack tense up beside her.“Oh, yeah. I’m sure it wasn’t him. But still… it’s weird to see someone who knows about all of this. He was with the guy when he was telling me about what happened and telling me that I was in huge trouble and I was going to have to do something.”Everly couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Slate had gone through this before. “Slate!” she shouted, and he looked up.His eyes flickered to Everly’s face, and then they went to Su’s, and they widened. Even from across the yard, Everly could read his lips, “Oh, shit.”

The black wolf Jack was fighting was strong, and though he had spent a lot of time training and sparing with other wolves in his pack… he’d never actually fought anyone with the intent to kill them.But… at the moment, he had no choice. If he didn’t try to kill the wolf that was scratching at him with his long claws, trying to knock Jack backward so that he could sink his long fangs into his neck, then that wolf would finish him off without a second thought, and Jack couldn’t let that happen.Next to him, Slate didn’t seem to have any problem whatsoever going in for a kill shot. Out of the corner of his eye, Jack could see Slate knock the smaller male he was fighting onto his backside and then chomp down on the sensitive area between his neck and shoulder. Within a few seconds, the wolf stopped moving, and Slate stood up, looking for the next wolf to take on.Jack didn’t have time to survey the area as he needed to pin this