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Gabriela would have kept some of them.”
“And lost some,” my mother added. “Certainly I’d have stepped down as Luna as far as running the pack went. But we don’t have to worry about that, because it’s so very clear that that Goddess has shone her light upon Lanie and the three of you. The Goddess has blessed her with her Luna intuition. That’s why I wasn’t able to find a way to solve this problem, and Lanie could.”
“And I did find a solution,” Lanie put in.
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good?”
“We’re both fine, my love,” Lanie said confidently and pushed a swell of light and comfort all around me.
Mason bent to drop a kiss on the top of her head, then took his seat again. He poured us all fresh glasses of wine and lifted his glass. “Cheers to our Luna.”
We toasted. As the warmth of the red wine ran down my throat, I looked around the table in wonder at everything that had gone on. One thing after another, we’d all endured enough to rock us to our cores, to drive us to our knees and lay us flat, but we all just kept getting up.
“Tell us what you figured out, Lanie,” Zane said.
She beamed. “Wolvesbane.”
Mason startled. “That’s a myth, isn’t it?”
“Apparently not…at least, the synthetic kind isn’t,” Lanie said. “It can be used to negate certain thing you need to take it with specific other ingredients and in precise dose.”
“Negate what certain things?” I asked suspiciously.
“It can render both men and women temporarily or permanently infertile,” she said. “It can dissolve the magic of binding spells… Basically, from what I could gather, wolvesbane works to tear things apart than tie them together. So, anything that requires a joining of some kind can be prevented or destroyed.”
Mason muttered out a low curse. “It’s extremely dangerous.”
“Very, very ancient,” my mother added. The ice cubes in her bag cra ckled against each other as she set it on the table. I also thought it was nothing but a myth. You say someone has sy n th esized it?”
risky.”
Lanie nodded. “Yes, and there are several different types. Some safer and more reliable than others.”
“None of them could be reliable or safe,” my mother countered in a thoughtful voice. “Using it would be “I’ll do it,” Zane said. “Whatever it is. Just tell me how to get it and how to use it.”
Lanie looked stricken. “It will require a sacrifice, Zane. One I’m not sure I can ask you to make.”
Zane–
“I’m the one who put myself in this predicament. Whatever the sacrifice is, I’ll make it.” I paused, thinking of how little time we had left. Tm supposed to meet the witch at the Stillwood Inn in three days. How long will it take to get the wolvesbane and whatever else we need? And how long does it take to work?”
“I’ve already ordered it.” Lanie said quietly. “It won’t be delivered to the house for safety and anonymity. We’ll have to go pick it up.”
“In Stillwood?” Xander asked.
She shook her head. “Outside of town. I’m waiting for the message to let me know when we can p “What’s the “What’s the sacrifice?” Mason asked Gabriela sighed, “Permanent infertility. I’d imagine it could result in temporary or permanent impotenc “F uck that,” Xander snarled.
I wasn’t happy about the idea I could never sire a pup of my own, or that my d ick would stop working.
“What else?”
“Or gan damage, leading to failure. It’s very toxic,” Gabriela said.
Lanie nodded. “We’d need ash, belladonna, raspberry leaf, Salt. Some other things I can’t think of. I wrote it all down.”
“Easy enough to get all the rest of that online or in town,” Mason said. “But…dude, you don’t want to risk taking this shi t, do you? It sounds like it could really f uck you up.”
“It could kill him,” Xander bit out. “So, no f ucking way!
“It’s probably our only option,” I shot back. “Unless you can find another way for me to tell a witch I decided I don’t really want to knock her up. Pretty sure breaking a vow made with a binding spell would also f uck me up pretty good.”
“If she’s desperate enough to allow you inside her body and to make her pregnant,” Gabriela said, Td say she’s definitely not going to just let you walk away. Or if she does, she’ll demand it out of one of you.”
She pointed at Mason, then at Xander.
“And that absolutely cannot happen, as I’m sure I do not need to tell you how very, very badly giving a witch access to an Alpha’s powers would go,” Gabriela finished. She gave me a sad look. Tm sorry, Zane, but I do think you will have to at least make the effort of breeding with her in order to fulfill the vow.”
But if I take this concoction, potion, whatever it is, it’ll make it so I can’t get her pregnant? Or I won’t be to perform, or what?” I swallowed some wine, but it tasted like gasoline.
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Lanie frowned.
“That won’t stop her from getting what she wants,” Gabriela said. “She can force him to an ejaculation without needing an erection.”
Xander recoiled. “The f uck you say!”
“Hey, I’m not a fan of the idea, either.” I went to him and put my arms around him so I could force him to look into my eyes. “But we’re going to make sure she can’t do that. Okay?”
He shook his head fiercely. “I don’t want you to do this sh it, Zane. I don’t want you risking your f ucking life…F uck! This is all so f ucked.”
“If he can’t get it up for her, that might be enough to make her call it off?” Mason suggested. “She’s probably not used to men not being able to get hard for her.”
“It won’t matter,” Gabriela told him.
“I think we have to let him…” Lanie coughed into her fist. Her cheeks bloomed crimson. She wouldn’t at me. “He has to f uck her. He has to go through the entire process of at least pretending he’s trying to get pregnant, so there’s no way she can claim he broke the vow. But with the right combination of wolvesbane a the other ingredients, we can make him incapable of impregnating her. me.” “That’s what we’ll do, then,” I said firmly, holding onto Xander as he tried to squirm away. “Hey, Look at I waited until he did. “We both know that fatherhood has nothing to do with who donates the sperm, and everything to do with who raises and loves the child. Right? We have three infants in this house right now that prove that. Anyway…” I faced Lanie. “How can we even be sure that any of this is going to work?”
“It’s going to work. I feel it. The Goddess is guiding me,” Lanie replied with such confidence I was. immediately convinced.
It all felt like sh it, though.
“Do you trust me, Zane?” Lanie got up from the table to join me and Xander.
After a second, so did Mason. The four of us made a circle, shoulder to shoulder. I closed my eyes and bowed my head to give my answer.
“Yes. With my life. Always.”
Lonle I was strong. Stronger than I’d ever been, even when compelled Orion. Stronger than I ever imagined!
could be.
Yet in that moment, I felt fragile as glass, “I’m going to make sure nothing terrible happens to you,” I promised Zane with a hitch in my voice. “No permanent damage. But we have to work fast. You’ll need to prepare.”
“I’m going to make some coffee. If you all can get this table cleaned up and check on the babies, we come back to this fresh and lay out the plan.” Gabriela said all this briskly, and then she paused. Clear throat. The nod she gave me was completely respectful, which I appreciated. “If that’s acceptable to Luna.”
“Absolutely.”
We made short work in the kitchen and, amazingly, none of the children woke up. I sent up a prayer of gratitude, and we all settled back at the table with cups of fresh, hot coffee and slices of cake. My hunger was still there, in the background, but I still felt it.
said, “When Lanie gets the message that the goods have been delivered, she and I will go pick it up,” Xander–
“Zane, you’ll be in no shape to come along. You’ll need to be fasting for the two days before you have to meet her. From food, water, and sex. It’s going to suck,” I told him.
“You’ll feel like s hit,” Mason said.
“He’ll feel even worse once he takes the mixture,” Gabriela put in dryly. “I’ll be surprised if Rhiannon doesn’t turn you away at the stink of you, after the hours you’ll have spent beforehand.”
Zane shuddered. ” F uck,”
“We’ll all be able to help you through it,” I told him. “But there’s no question, it is going to be rough.”
“Fine, so you and Xander will get the stuff. Any idea of when? We’re on this tight turnaround,” Mason said.
I’d checked my messages while they cleaned the kitchen. “I should hear within the hour.”
“And there’s no way any of this is traceable to you?” Xander demanded. “Nobody’s going to show up ready to drag you off to jail or anything?”
“Surprisingly, or v, or not, there are a lot worse things on the dark web than me buying synthetic herbs,” I told him with a small smile. “And this will give us our time together, my love. I know it won’t be like a romantic getaway, but we will be together.”
“When this is all squared away, when we aren’t worrying from one minute to the next about a f ucking war, I am going to take you away on a romantic weekend. Someplace warm and tropical, with white sands and “I want in on that action,” Mason interjected, and I laughed, realizing we hadn’t been shielding ourselves from the others.
“Me too,” Zane said aloud.
Gabriela shook her head but didn’t ask us what we were all discussing.
“Zane will take the potion early Saturday morning. It will start working within minutes, according to everything I’ve researched. He should be recovered enough from the initial…effects…to have his date with Rhiannon that night,” I said.
*Please don’t call it that,” Zane said with a grimace.
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