Page 73 of Witch Untold
“Here! She’s here!” Tor’s voice was loud in the eerie silence.
The crunch of frosted ground was followed by hot hands on my body.
“I got you, Cor, I got you.” Tor cradled me against his chest, and I curled into his heat.
“What happened?” Leif asked. “Cora, what happened?”
I opened my mouth to tell them I had no idea. That I’d been sleeping, but all that came out was a high-pitched whine.
Panic clawed at my throat. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t fucking speak.
Chapter Twenty-Three
“Drink this.” Leif handed me a hot lemony drink. “It should help your throat.”
My voice was back, thank God, but it was a croaky whisper.
“Does it hurt?” Tor asked.
I shook my head and sipped the warm drink.
I was curled on the sofa, wrapped in a blanket. Tor had built up the fire and Rune sat beside me, his body heat seeping through the blanket and warming me up.
“Can you remember what happened?” Leif asked softly.
I looked at Rune, neck heating. The last thing I remembered was hot and heavy times with dream Rune, but the guys didn’t need to know that.
I should have woken up when you left the bed,Rune said.
“We all should have.” Tor sat on the edge of the coffee table opposite me and gently took my hand. “This is dried blood.”
Shit. He was right. I had dried blood under my nails. “What the heck is happening to me?”
“Could it be something to do with your trip to Tarrifel?” Leif asked.
Shit. “The changes.” My voice was a whisper. “It has to be something to do with what the entity did to me.”
“Then we need those test results back ASAP,” Tor said.
“They’re working on it.” My voice came out stronger now. I touched my throat. “I think I’m okay.”
“What does it want from you?” Leif pondered. “I don’t like this.”
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. “I don’t like it either.” We couldn’t control what was happening, not until we got the results back from Ursula. “It’s impossible to combat the unknown, and I don’t want to waste energy trying. We have enough on our plates.”
“Anna has patrols out looking for the original vampire,” Tor said. “You don’t need to worry about that.”
“I know, but I have Sloane and Wren to worry about, and there are humans being fed on at The Order club. I need to get them out.”
“Which you can’t do until Sloane is better,” Leif pointed out.
So, you rest,Rune added.Take some time to recharge.
“I have to speak to Conah. Jasper went missing again.”
Tor frowned. “Missing?”
Shit, they didn’t know about his blank spots. The fact that he got pulled away sometimes. I filled them in quickly.
