The Alpha's Warlock
It took a lot of convincing, and a dangerously-close-to-truthful explanation, but finally they sent her back to school and chilled the hell out.
Which meant when Thanksgiving rolled around, Fiona hitched a ride home with me on the Wednesday night.
We stopped for coffee on the way out of town, put on some Queen, and rode in companionable silence for the first half hour—conversational silence, anyway. No human or other being I’d ever met could resist singing along with Freddie Mercury.
Finally the playlist ended, and Fiona reached over and turned the volume down, putting the next song in my random queue, whatever it was, quiet enough to be a whisper of sound over the engine and the wheels on t