Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“Okay, well, I have my work cut out for me then. What do you think I should start with first?” I look back at Oliver who is rubbing his forehead. “What’s wrong?”
“Everytime I tried to read over your shoulder, I got a splitting headache. Is that a normal thing when you get a letter from a witch?”
“Uh, no. I could read it just fine. I can feel magic on it though, so maybe she made it so only I can read it. I’m curious, though. Can you read anything in the book? I know it has all kinds of magic cast over it, but does it have some kind of repelling spell too?”
He starts to slowly flip the pages. “That one is fuzzy, but it doesn’t hurt my brain like the letter did.”
He points to one that has the coven’s lineage. “AH!” He turns a page and quickly flips it again.
“What?”
“That one actually burned. It burned my fingers and my eyes. What the hell is on that one?”
“It is coven locations. Clearly that is a bigger secret than the people in the covens.”
I turn to the page marked with the spell to protect my practice area. “Can you read this? You are my bodyguard for this whole thing.”
“Umm, yeah. I can. Is it weird that someone went through and put individual spells on pages and pieces of information?”
“Not really, and it wasn’t just one person. This is a collection from many witches. So I’m sure each entry was protected by the witch who wrote it.”
I shrug, admiring the effort that this book took to make. Let’s just practice the protection spell and see how that goes. I’ve never done it on my own, but I’ve seen Elena do it and Gentry did one when we got our warrior brands, I just didn’t know it at the time.”
We spend the rest of the afternoon setting and unsetting the protection circle around us. We let our friends know so we could practice mind linking them too.
“Okay, I didn’t do anything and I am exhausted. You really did this everyday, Bitty?” Oliver and I were sitting out at the patio table with the rest of the guys, Jena and Lil eating dinner and going over what we did for the day.
“Yeah, I don’t do it alone though. Not that you weren’t helpful.”
I backtrack quickly. “I just don’t normally do the magic part on my own. It’s a lot. What about you guys? How was Sky training?” I smile at Jena and Lil. “Was Dwight as lippy this morning as he was yesterday?”
“Not after his smug ass was paired with me for the patrol run and then Alpha Jen for the first hour of training.”
“You have got to quit calling me that.”
Jena complains. “And yes, that pansy will think long and hard before he says something smartass to a team lead again.
“Technically you are an Alpha, the Alpha of your pack in fact. Why should we not use your title?” Mateo is just stirring the pot. “I still call Alpha Lucas, Alpha and I will call the twins Alpha when it’s their time.”
He shrugs like that is the most natural thing.
“But, like this, sitting here at dinner with no other pack members around, you will still refer to them by their title? I know you don’t. You have been friends your whole lives, you use their names in casual settings.”
She is sitting next to me, so when he leans in to whisper in her ear, I can hear everything.
“There is nothing casual about you.”
He growls at her and I can feel my own face flush and she gasps low.
I have never seen my brother like this with any girl. He would flirt a little, but he seems to actually be trying here. He’s never given attention to one girl over another. I wonder if he is practicing for his mate. They will be 18 in the spring, maybe his wolf can sense a connection with her even though we have our warrior brands.
“Ugh, stop.”
She pushes him away and Lil and I share a smile.
When we are all done and heading upstairs, I grab the girls and bring them with me. We have each been attached to at least one of the guys since we got here and I want a little time alone with my friends. No one questions it, until I shut the guys out of my room and we laugh at their whining protests.
“At least dinner wasn’t interrupted by the banshee and her dad.”
Jena says. “It’s really hard to have a conversation with them around. They seem like the kind of people who take words and twist them or they like to spread gossip. I don’t know how your Alpha deals with it or why. It doesn’t make sense for him to just let them roam around the way that they do, and he seems like a pretty strong and authoritative Alpha most of the time. No offense to your
Alpha, they just seem to have some underlying control that they shouldn’t.”
“None taken. I always thought the same thing, but being so far removed from everyone for so long I didn’t know that what they were doing and how they were behaving was wrong. Even when I was getting beat up on a regular basis, it never occurred to me that maybe someone should have stopped it.”
“So it was her that caused you all the trouble.”
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