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CHAPTER ONE
FINN
My unity bound mate has been kidnapped—again. Our plan to take down Egan was risky, but would have been worth it if it worked.
It didn’t.
Betrayed by Adelaide, the High Priestess of the Sun Witches and Josie’s friend, everything went to shite quick. The battle became brutal—fighting against werewolves is never fun—and when the fur stopped flying, Josie was gone.
She just poofed into thin air and that can mean only one thing—magic.
It won’t take long to track her down. Our connection has grown stronger each day since the universe gave her to me and has amplified since I drank her blood. The ties binding the four of us are cinching ever tighter.
Sebastian, Rune, and I follow the tug of her energy through the swamp and muck, from the battle at the Dumont family mausoleum in the heart of Tremé to Jean Lafitte Park.
Emerging from the line of trees, I barrel towards the squat cabin hidden in the little clearing that backs onto the bayou.
What is she doing all the way out here, so far from the city? Honestly, I don’t fucking care.
Judging by the warm lights flickering in the windows, someone is home—likely the someone who stole Josephine from us.
I scan the house with my preternatural senses as I approach. Normally, I can pick up on the emotions of people around me, but I’m getting nothing. There must be a magical ward or a block on the cabin. I can’t sense Josie’s emotions or presence at all, but I trust that the pull is leading me in the right direction.
She’s in there.
I know she is.
“Finn, hold your position.” I bare my fangs at Sebastian’s command, but he ignores the insolence and pulls me to a stop. With a firm hand on my shoulder, he whirls me around to face him. “Calm the fuck down. What do you feel in the air?”
I break from my haze of fury and try again.
Moon Witches. A lot of them.
No wonder I can’t sense anything inside the walls of the cabin.
“Fucking Moon Witches,” Rune breathes.
I shrug out of Sebastian’s hold. “I don’t care if there are Moon Witches in there. I’m getting Josie and taking her home.”
Rune curses. “We need to stop and think.”
It is the utmost taboo for vampires to touch Moon Witches, and the same goes for werewolves to harm our Sun Witches.
Technically speaking, if there are Moon Witches in there, this is werewolf territory.
I get it—I do. “I understand the repercussions if shite hits the fan in there. I just don’t care.”
Sebastian shakes his head. “Don’t be stupid. No witch is worth starting an all-out war over.”
My eyes flick to scarlet as a low growl rips from my throat. “Josie is our Unity Witch. Of course she’s worth it.”
I look to my sire, Rune, for backup and find a roadblock instead of an ally. “Sebastian is right about stopping to think. We need a plan.”
How could they be so unwilling to take a risk for Josie? Sebastian, I understand. He’s been trapped in a living hell for twenty-five years because Josie’s mother rejected him and then died.
There’s no love lost between him and our girl, but Rune’s another story. He’s into Josie like I am.
“Respectfully, stopping to formulate a plan is a garbage plan,” I say. “We can’t stand out here with our thumbs up our collective arses while her captors decide to either kill her or let her go.”
