The Witch And The Alpha
Several key pages had been roughly torn out near the back of the book, the jagged edges suggesting they’d been ripped away in a hurry years ago, and I knew my mother wouldn’t have done that to her own work.
“Looking for a spell to turn us all into toads, or just trying to find a way to sneak out the back door?” Vaelor asked, his voice coming from the doorway and making me jump so hard I nearly knocked over the inkwell.
He was leaning against the frame with his arms crossed, looking exhausted but still radiating that restless, aggressive energy that seemed to follow him everywhere he went.
“I don’t think a toad would survive very long in this weather, and besides, I’m busy trying to figure ou