The Alpha's Warlock
My body was lying under that oak, rotting away.
I had to swallow again, desperately, as more bile rose up. I kept it down this time, barely, and Calder handed me the water glass without a word. I drained the last of it.
“There’s not much more to tell,” I rasped after I’d handed the glass back. “Calder needed a boost to get us out, so we mated.” I was leaving out some details of that episode, so sue me. I couldn’t go there, not with this particular audience. My cousins. My ex, who was with one of the cousins. Calder’s…who the fuck knew what, who was clearly with the other cousin. Calder himself. Fuck. “He used our combined magic, got us out. Killed them all. And here we are.”