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“And where he goes, I go,” Luna answers. “Babysitting duties.” She winks at the two of us.
Francis looks between the three of us. “Well, I’m not staying here by myself.”
“You don’t understand. He doesn’t care who or how many people he has to go through. He doesn’t think like everyone else.”
“We have to try, Elsie,” Thorne agrees. “We have to try.”
I stare at the people in front of me, not sure what to think. For three hundred years, I’ve been alone, staying hidden in the background, secretly searching for information on Thorne and just out of reach of Kragen. Now, three people are willing to risk their lives for me. I don’t know whether to be grateful or terrified.
“I’m going tocall Topher. He’ll know who to contact here in Charleston.” Luna pulls out her phone and moves into the foyer.
“What can I do?” Francis asks.
“You can stay safe,” Thorne answers. “This isn’t something that humans should be involved in. We have no idea what Kragen will do.”
“Why is he so obsessed with you?” Francis asks. “Why not just admit defeat and let you go?”
I sit on the overstuffed couch, pulling my legs beside me. “I’ve wondered that a lot through the years. The only feasible answer I can come up with is that it’s because I escaped. I survived. Kragen is a narcissistic asshole who dominates everyone around him. It took me a hundred years, but I escaped. I’m the one that got away.”
“It seems to me he’d lose interest after all this time,” she adds. On cue, the doorbell rings, making the hairs on my arm stand at attention. “Oh, my. Are we expecting anyone?”
“I’ll get it!” Luna announces from the other room. “It’s probably the calvary.”
Reaching out my energy, I can tell the person on the other side of the door is like her, a lycanthrope. I move behind her at vampire speed.
Luna opens the door, revealing a man not much older than her. He’s tall, thin, and is the host of a head full of coal black hair. Bright green eyes take in every inch of our resident wolf. “Luna?” he asks with a smile.
“That’s me! You got here quick.”
“Yeah, I was in the neighborhood. My Alpha didn’t give me any information other than an address and a name.” He looks past Luna at the three of us. “You two are vampires? And you’re…”
“Human,” Francis answers with a wave.
“What’s going on?”
Thorne moves toward the young lycanthrope, offering his hand to shake. “Thorne. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
“Micah,” he answers.
“We would like to meet with your Alpha.”
Micah looks around the group. “Why?”
“That’s something we’d rather share with him for right now. Please don’t take offense to that.”
The lycanthrope shifts from foot to foot. “I will ask him to set up a meeting.”
“Thank you,” Luna answers. “My Alpha spoke very highly of him.”
“I’ll be in touch.” Micah turns, leaving the four of us alone.
“Too bad I’m not into men. He’s easy on the eyes,” Francis says, watching him walk away.
“Agreed,” Luna adds with a laugh. “You’ve got good taste, Ms. Francis.”
“In the meantime, why don’t we do some research?” Francis claps her hands, moving away from the door. “I have a laptop in the other room. There has to be something on Kragen. He may not be human, but he has to have a weakness. Everyone has a weakness.”
“Kragen doesn’t have weaknesses,” I retort.
