LUCIANO’S POV“It looks like a ball of junk” Arianna was saying as we crouched down beside the object the witches were working on. “It smells like a ball of monkshood though. We need to get it off the road before Collin and his wolves get here” I take off my shirt and wrap it around my hand. I needed to get this shit off the road. “Wait, it’s not just monkshood. Those witches did something to it. I can feel it” I smile at that “You can feel it? Are you a spell whisperer now? Collin is barely two minutes away.” “They are in a car. They can drive right over it with zero contact.” She had a point. I needed to think fast. I could hear the wolf and the witches waking. I looked back to see the wolf dragging his two accomplices along. They were heading for the woods. I couldn’t deal with this right now. They were not getting far.“They put it on the road knowing a car would drive over it. I need it off the road.” I reached down for it with my wrapped hand and got thrown ten feet aw

ARIANNA’S POV We had been following the pin Andrew sent Luciano for over twenty minutes now. The compound was big, but the amount of forest around us was becoming annoying. “Try and keep up, we are almost there”. That was good news. I was getting 7 for that. I needed to get my head on straight. I couldn’t let him have that much control over me. A little sympathy hug and minutes later I was locking my legs around him. I looked ahead and I could see an abandoned house. It looked like something hunters used as rest houses when they couldn’t get home. Back when people hunted for a living. I rolled my eyes at that description. We walked into the house. The door had been left open. The outside may have looked shabby but inside had clearly been used recently. It was still shabby but a little clean. “They must have been here a while if they cleaned it out”. Luciano said. Voicing my exact thoughts. “What are we looking for exactly?” I ask him. “And how is it that no one ever noticed the

LUCIANO’S POVThis was good. It meant we had a way to contact these lunatics. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket and pulled it out to check. It was Dave saying they were five minutes away. “Dave is almost here.” I say to Arianna. “When did you call him?” “The minute we got out of that bloody house, I sent him out location and told him to come get us.” “What do we do with them?” She asked a question I had been battling with for a while. As far as Collin was concerned he left two of his wolves here and I was to find and return them. He wouldn’t take kindly to me locking them up or inflicting any more damage on them. “Ill put them on a plane. Their Alpha should deal with them by himself.” I could see the fear in their eyes when I said that. Collin may bite my ear off for breaking their knees but that would just be to save face. He would nearly kill them for what they had gotten involved in. They would definitely not be running under any full moons for at least ten years. Wanti

ARIANNA’S POV What did he mean he already knew. I hoped this was all just some trick. I could not fathom being more different than I already was. Although it did explain the feeling in my chest whenever I tried to better. If I didn’t know who I was then how could I access whatever power I had. “It’s fine. I dont want to know.” I said back to Lucianno. He and Dave looked confused at my answer but neither of them pushed it. There was a full moon coming in a week. I couldn’t run from whatever this was forever. But by Luna I planned to be as delusional as possible until the full moon. “Was there anything else?” I ask both of them. “I mean other than Andrew going to mystic moon, did you need me for something else?” “I don’t think so. I have some business later on but Dave will accompany me.”“Umm… I actually can’t go with you today. Sorry about that. I promised Becky I would help her with something. Look at the time…” he feigned staring at his watch…”I should get going. You kids have

LUCIANO’S POVDave had reserved three rooms for us. Two on the fifth floor and one on the third. According to him, it was all they had. I had a feeling that was a lie. He just wanted Ray out of the way. Either way, it was too late to argue. We checked in two hours ago but i couldn’t sleep. I had not heard back from Andrew. Collins wolves were on their way back to him but we still had no idea who else was involved. Could members of my park be involved? I couldn’t rule out anything. And the witches, I would have to drop by a witch’s place before heading back to the compound. After hours of tossing and turning, I decded to hunt down a drink. The hotel had a bar in ita restaurant. A few glasses of scotch would quiet my mind. The restaurant was deserted when I walked in. The bar on the other hand had a few people hanging around. I noticed Arianna sitting alone in the corner of the bar. What was she doing here? How was she even allowed in? The thought of her being carded made me smile.