Page 5 of Enchanted with the Orc
“Did you want to know about David?” she asked in a hushed voice and we could hear multiple emotions roiling in her voice—none of them good.
“Who’s David?” I demanded, and I couldn’t stop the possessive growl from my voice.
“That’s her… well, I guess he’s her estranged husband,” she said with a deep sigh. “He’s not really an ex because she hasn’t dissolved the marriage yet. He’s a fuckhead. You wouldnotlike him. We didn’t know what happened when she left. We tried to reach out but she never responded, so we left her alone, thinking we were helping.”
She pressed her fingers to her eyes. “Turns out he stopped her from talking to us, and then by the time she came back… It was bad, guys. Bad enough that when she came back, she just… wasn’t the same. She doesn’t have the same light in her eyes that she had before. Thank the Goddess Mother we had a protection spell around the coven grounds, because by the time she came back… if he’d found her again…” she trailed off, pursing her lips.
Fury like I’d never known swept through me.
A male hurt my mate. Her… husband.
“How do I get rid of him?” I asked her, and she sighed again.
“If I knew, I’d have done it already, to be honest with you. But on this plane, you can’t go around killing people. You have to go through the proper channels. Thelaw.” She said the last word like it pained her, and I had to admit that it pained me too.
“But I’d behelpingthe plane by getting rid of the trash,” I explained in my most convincing voice.
“I agree with you,” she told me, “but the police won’t. And I knowyou guys are rich and everything, but you’re still not above it all. You canbendthe law with money, but I wouldn’t go around outright breaking it.”
I tsked, slumping in my seat. “What the hell’s the point of all this coin, then?” I demanded, and she chuckled.
“No dead bodies, Enka, that’s all I’m asking,” she said, interrupted by a deep male voice joining in.
“No dead bodies.Who’s this?” Rudgar demanded. “Savla?”
No one else in the room said a peep, pointing fingers toward where Savla stood closest to the phone, shaking his head and rolling his eyes. “Yeah, Rud. It’s me.”
“Whatever the mess is, we can fix it up until a point. Butno bodies.” With that, he hung up the phone while Zara complained in the background.
“Maybe a body,” Rok said with a shrug. “What Rud doesn’t know isn’t going to hurt him.”
Murmured agreements were heard from all around the table, but Krusk shushed them. “No, he’s our clan leader while Dristan’s busy. What he says goes.”
Annoyed by the new rules that were restricting me, I turned back to face the screen, my gaze going to my female without hesitation. “I just hope she isn’t in any trouble,” I whispered.
Chapter Four
Tasia
Idon’t know how I’m going to survive this.
I looked around at the females gathering in the main apartment we used for the coven. Gabbi was surrounded by her aunts, and my heart ached with loss.
I don’t want to leave them.
I sucked in a breath, forcing a smile on my face as they set up for the party we were holding for my daughter. She was turning four in a couple weeks and I couldn’t believe how quickly time had passed.
I’d used the excuse of her birthday being thrown early as a way to say one last farewell to them before we left. I hoped with everything in my heart that we would be able to come back soon, but I didn’t know how true that would be.
We needed to run, and we needed to runfar. I couldn’t rest until I had my daughter safely away from her biological father. And that was all he’d ever be. He’d never done anything to prove he was a real father.
“Oh,” Pen laughed as Gabbi ran up to her, pressing her cheek to Pen’s heavily pregnant stomach. She peered down at her, running her fingers over my little girl’s hair. “Trying to say hello?”
Gabbi turned her face to press a kiss to her stomach, screaming “Hello in there!” and my heart ached with love for her. And loss. So much loss.
I was taking her away from the only family she’d ever known. The one that had raised her. It was such a disservice to her and my family, but I couldn’t get them involved. They’d done too much for me to get them into trouble now.
I let her flit between the people she loved, getting praise and presents as she went. She already had so many things—spoiled and adored by everyone in the coven and clan—that I knew it was going to be difficult for her to let everything go.
