Jace stood in the Quades main house for the first time in his life. His cousin Beau stood right next to him. The alpha of Somewhere, Texas was right in front of them. He’d come all the way to El Paso after everything that’d happened. Well, they’d been told to come by Ryan. And they’d obeyed their alpha’s orders.
Ryan stood in the back of the dining room with Kate at his side. They were safe. That was good.
The Quade Pack was now the Kyle Pack. So strange.
The El Paso alpha was a brand new Moonbound wolf. A turned wolf.
Jace hadn’t even known that was possible.
Christian Kyle’s mate was a woman named Ellie from the Oklahoma pack, but she was human. He could smell that much. She had a big German Shepherd sitting at her feet at the kitchen table.
Christian stood and approached Aaron VonBrandt. They shook hands. “Thank you for coming.”
“You’ve proven yourself to be a good man, Christian. Both Kate and Ellie have made your case for you. You have my pack’s support.”
“And mine,” Ryan echoed from the other side of the room. “I sent for Jace and Beau. I trust them explicitly.”
All eyes turned on him and his brother for a moment. “Happy to help.” He didn’t know what he was doing here yet but telling a room full of alphas no was out of the question. His brother nodded his head silently next to him.
“Who are all of you?” A small female voice spoke from the end of the table. “Where am I?” Her eyes were wide. She looked scared. The girl couldn’t be more than fourteen or fifteen. She was so small.
“We’re here to help you sweetie.” Christian’s mate rose from the table and went to comfort the young girl. Christian’s woman had tattoos showing on her wrists and some peeking out from beneath the neckline of her shirt. She’d been mated before. “Let’s take a walk with Dodger and go see some horses outside. Does that sound good?”
The teen girl’s tension faded quickly, and she nodded. They left the room together.
Aaron walked to the table and sat down next to two red-headed women. Women who weren’t wolves. He could smell that much.
“Jace. Beau.” Ryan gestured for he and his brother to take a seat at the table.
He walked around to a couple of empty chairs and sat.
“Siobhan. Katherine. There was nothing to be done?” He looked at the two ladies seated next to him. They both shook their heads.
“It’s a variation of the spell that was done to Paige.” One woman spoke softly, but confidently. “There is a chance that a mate bond could restore her, of course, but she’s a child.”
“And you can’t turn her into a wolf to heal her like they did to me?” Christian spoke this time, his voice tight and pain laced.
“I don’t have a spell for that. To my knowledge a woman has never been turned. It’s not that it’s not possible, it’s just that a spell of that magnitude would take more skill to write than I or my sister possess, but—”
“But what?” Christian latched onto the last word from her mouth. “My sister’s memory resets every other day. Don’t ask me to just allow this. I could never allow her to be mated, even once she’s older. She wouldn’t know the man who would do it for more than a few hours. That’s never happening. We need another option. There has to be another way.”
“Go on, Siobhan,” Aaron said, his tone even and steady.
“She’ll never forgive us for giving her up, Aaron.”
“Could she save this child?” He glanced at the other redhead. They had to be sisters. They looked eerily similar.
The other woman wet her lips and spoke. “If anyone outside of the main coven in New England could write a spell like that, it would be Meredith Banfield.”
Coven? They were talking to witches…
“You’ll find her in the White Woods of Colorado. But she’s strong, Aaron and she doesn’t like people coming around.”
The big alpha growled softly and then turned to face he and his brother.
Jace glanced back at Ryan.
His alpha nodded.
Then he looked back to the east Texas alpha. Aaron VonBrandt wasn’t technically higher in rank than any other wolf pack alpha, but most of the surrounding packs respected him enough to treat him as if he were.
“We were called to go look for this wi—woman?” Jace corrected himself quickly.
“You have a very special set of skills, Jace. You and your brother are charming, single, and very skilled.” Ryan put a hand on Jace’s shoulder. The alpha power flowed around him like a live wire.
He would never deny his alpha. But witches? A few minutes ago, he hadn’t even realized that was a thing…
Now they were asking him to hunt one. One that didn’t want to be found.
But that had been his and his brother’s specialty in the military—finding people. And it was an innocent child who needed the witch to heal her. And three alphas were asking for help.
“My brother and I are in, sir.”
Thank you for joining me for Christian and Ellie’s story. There’s more Moonbound to come in the future. New packs. New loves. New complications. Be sure to join my newsletter to get updates! In the meantime, if you haven’t read the rest of the VonBrandt Wolf Pack books or the Moonbound Wolves books, I highly recommend checking those out next!
— Krystal