Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“Yeah, but you still aren’t going alone, that’s for damn sure.”
“We’ll talk about it at the house, we are clear here.”
When we get back to the house Lenny is waiting there by the cute little picket fence that lines the sidewalk.
“I have your food and a few little extra goodies. I was able to talk with Jena a little bit and catch up. I miss having you girls in the packhouse. There is so much testosterone overwhelming the Luna and I. You girls softened everyone up a bit.”
“Wait, Kaley didn’t move herself into Sky’s room?” Lil sounds surprised.
“Not everything is going that girl’s way. Now, Martha will be by with dinner for you tonight. The Alpha is having guests and I really need to be there to help with that.”
She winks at us and just walks away.
“I hate all of this talking in code. Is this what it’s like to be human and have to share secrets with no mindlink? This blows.”
Lil huffs as I laugh at her comparison.
I hand her my bag and pick up the obnoxiously large basket. I think if I folded myself right I would be able to fit my whole body in it. We make our way inside.
“Another basket? Lenny already left our food. What is that?!” Jena asks as we head to the kitchen.
“No idea, but it weighs a ton.”
I set it down on the floor, there is no way I am lifting it onto the table.
I open the top and gasp. It’s filled to the brim with books, ingredients, candles. It’s like an old world apothecary.
“There’s a note on top.”
Jena points from over my shoulder.
“What’s it say?” Lil asks and I don’t know why but a sense of dread comes over me.
My Little Apprentice,
It has been too long, but developments have come our way that I cannot ignore. Please forgive me. I have been made aware of your current situation. Please follow the instructions marked to protect yourself and your team from any further magics that are cast at you.
I will be in touch soon, do not give up hope, there is light coming for you through this darkness.
Elena
I pull the deep emerald green book out. This one is small like a notebook you would keep in a purse, but filled with spells and notes. I flip to the page marked with a sprig of holly and a fern leaf.
The instructions are simple enough to follow. There are several ingredients that we must bundle together and place outside around the perimeter of our house and then a few things for the doors and de windows. There are also instructions for woven bracelets for my team and I think I know how to break my boys from their prison.
We spend the rest of our evening setting up all of the pieces for the protection spell. I was hoping that Oliver would be here to help me, but Jena is more than adequate at helping me perform the incantation part of the protection spell. I light the fire in the firepit in the backyard like I do it all the time. I think Oliver was able to unlock whatever block I had with my magic when he stopped by yesterday.
It doesn’t take long for me to say the few lines of protection spell and feel the literal change in the breeze around the house. The cool night air warmed just a few degrees, but enough to be noticed. Then Jena and I set about making the woven bracelets.
We tied red strings around the smallest herb leaves I have ever seen. The process was intricate since we had to knot the strings in very specific locations around the herbs.
Then we made it more-so when we made bracelets for the guys by weaving in a piece of the bracelet they gave me for my fifteenth birthday and by adding a small chunk of a green malachite stone and obsidian stone, both with hand carved runes for protection.
It took hours. Even Martha was able to drop dinner by and Wyatt and Nathaniel had been here to eat and then left again to run patrols and we didn’t even look up.
It was well after eleven when we finished, but I had to finish, we need to get these on before anything else happens. I give Jena hers and we both repeat the incantation that goes with it. She does the same with mine. Then we find Lil, who all but laughs while she repeats the incantation. Apparently the spell tickles.
We decide that Lil should follow me and Jena should wait for Wyatt and Nathaniel to set them up with their bracelets.
We start walking, taking the route that Lenny suggests to get to the forest behind the packhouse. It’s been almost a month since we had our last bonfire here. Time seems to just be flying right now and yet I wish it could go just a little bit faster so we could get to the light that Elena was talking about.
Once I get to the clearing a familiar tattooed hulking form stands waiting.
“Oliver!” I whisper shout and run to him. I don’t even care if anyone can smell me on him, I need the contact, need the tight bear hug embrace that only he can give. He just holds me then gives me a kiss on his spot on my temple then lets me go. He gestures with his hand over our heads.
“Do the umbrella.”
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