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KESKA: I strip out of my clothes and shift, feeling that now familiar push as Corla takes control. She phases us out of the room and straight to Trever. Liam gets up and comes over to us, and starts to pet her. “I can’t help it, she is so soft.” He says. Corla nuzzles him. Trever too pets her, then Dutch and Mackie come over to pet her. “Wow, she is soft, softer than anything I have ever felt before, and I have never seen a red wolf before either.” Dutch says. Mackie nods in agreement. “How did you get out of the closed room?” James asked. {“I phased.”} She says. “Like Papa used to do.” He whispers, with tears in his eyes. {“Yes.”} She says quietly. “Can you do that with Keska too?” He asked, wiping the tears away. {“Yes.”} She says again. Then she phases straight over to him and puts her head in his lap. He starts to pet her and just lets the tears fall. “I miss him. Kes.” He says. “I do too, James.” I answer him through Corla. “If we are missing him, just think how Nana must feel; he was her mate.” I tell him. “I know.” He nods. “What else can you do?” He asked us. Again, wiping away the tears. {“We can walk on water.”} She goes over to the pool and walks down the middle, the whole length of it. {“I can control fire, I would be able to walk through it, like I walked on the water.”} “Can you conjure it?” He asked. {“No. Just control, the same with water, control, but not conjure.”} She answers him. Then she phases back to Trever, and nuzzles him. He strokes her fur, curling his fingers in it. She licks his face. He smiles at her. “You are beautiful.” He tells her. She just rubs her head into him. “Thank you, Corla, but I need Kes back now so we can finish our conversation.” James says. She turns to look at him, nods, and phases us back into the changing room, shifts us back, and I get dressed and come out. As we walk out, James says, “Please phase back to your spot. I would like to see that.” So, Corla phases us back to our seat. “You disappeared.” He says. “I can’t speak to that, I don’t get to see that, what I see is like looking through water in a fishbowl, things are a little distorted, but I can see where I am and where I am going.” I tell him. “Are you able to take someone with you?” he asked me. “Don’t know, I haven’t tried.” I tell him. “Will you try, for me?” he asked. I walk over to Liam and take his hand and phase to the changing rooms and back. “Thank you.” He tells me. “Welcome.” “But now back to Jessie.” He states. “Do we even know if her Mate is here?” I asked. “Colton’s mate’s brother seems very interested in her. I have caught him watching her every time she is around him.” Janica says. “If he is, then he must be waiting for her to be 18 and shift before he steps forward to claim her.” James adds. “Hopefully, that is the case.” I say. “But that gives Jessie 4 days to pull something.” Liam says. “I will endeavor to continue to stay out of sight of her.” I say. “But that’s not fair to you, why should you have to keep dodging her?!” Liam states with a bit of anger in his voice. I get up and hug him. “If it is going to help keep the peace, then I will do what I must, and just pray to the moon goddess that Wednesday gets here fast.” I say to him. He wraps his arms around me and hugs me tight. “If anything happens to you again, I don’t care if she is my sister I will beat her ass bloody!!” He states. “Liam!” I scolded him. “No! I don’t care.” Then he turns and looks at James, “And you won’t be able to stop me either!” he states with conviction. “I wouldn’t try, little brother, I wouldn’t try.” James answers him. “James! Don’t encourage him with that kind of talk. It’s exactly that kind of thing that Uncle Carson won’t tolerate.” I tell them both. “Sorry, Kes, but in this case I am with him 100%.” James says. “Sorry, love, I can’t fault him on that one either.” Trever says.
MACKIE: “Face it, Kes, I don’t think that any of us here would fault him, and some of us would probably join him.” I tell her. “Jessie needs a wake-up call, what that is or will be, I have no clue, but I hope she gets it and soon, or whatever pack she ends up in is in for trouble.” I state. She just shakes her head. “But it’s late, and I for one am tired.” I say. “Can we have another camp sleepover?” Liam asked, looking at Kes. “I don’t care.” She says. “What do you mean, camp sleepover?” James says with a bit of suspicion in his voice, looking at the prince and Dutch. “Oh, please, little alpha, do you think anything would happen when the little one is around?” Trever says, looking back at him, and nods his head towards Liam. “We gave our word that we would wait, and we will.” He says.
“Well, if we are going to have another camp sleepover over then we need to go get Kes’s room ready.” I say. Liam is the first one up and moving towards the door. We all chuckle at his enthusiasm.
JESSIE: Now I can’t wait till morning, I am so looking forward to paying Kes back that I don’t even care that I have to clean the cells. It’s 11, and I see the guards coming to escort me back to my cell, and I see that Marla and Dedi are also in tow. I greeted the girls with a hug and head towards the dungeon, with a smile on my face. “Did you find your mate’s” I asked them. “Yes.” They both say. Mine is a warrior from Harvest Moon, Pack Marla says. “Mine is a warrior form Dark Waters Pack, “ Dedi says. “Congratulations.” I tell them both. “Harvest Moon is Alpha Camron’s pack; He seems to be a good alpha.” I tell Marla. She nods. “Sorry, Dedi, I have no clue about Dark Waters.” I tell her. “That’s ok, I am just happy that I have my mate.” She says. I nod my head. I am glad that my friends are getting out of here. I know that I will be getting out of here on Wednesday myself, and I can’t wait.
KESKA: We get up to my room, and just like the night before, with the guys there to help, we get my room set up for the camp sleepover. Getting the beds moved and the extra bedding from the hall closet. Sending the guys to go change, Mackie and I changed and got ready for bed, I didn’t feel as anxious this time around, and when Liam opened the door, I just waved the guys in. We all got into our places, but before I could turn out the light. “Can you tell me about Papa?” Liam asked. “I can a little, buddy, but he died when I was 4.” I tell him. “How did he die?” I take a deep breath, because if what I remember is correct, that will be one more thing to turn him against Jessie, and I really don’t want to do that. “It was a rogue attack; he was trying to save us.” “How?” “We were playing hide and seek. Papa and Nana lived closer to the wooded border back then, and we were told not to go into the woods behind the house, but Jessie didn’t listen, and she went straight for the woods. We smelled them before we heard them, then we heard Jessie scream, Papa took off at a dead run straight to where we heard her scream from, he got to her before the rogues did, but he wasn’t able to fight to the best of his ability, because he had Jessie in his arms trying to get back to the house, what and or how things happened I don’t know, James and I were ushered into the house and into the safe room by Nana, and I think she went out to wait and watch for Papa to come with Jessie. Honestly, I think the only ones that truly know are Nana and Jessie.” I tell him.
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