Wicked Werewolf by Lisa Renée Jones Read Free Book Online

practice developing it.”
    “A witch?” Kole asked.
    Aylia glanced at him. “Or a warlock.” She tried to move away and Nico wrap his arm around her waist. She sighed and continued, ”My Coven’s been working with the Wardens since we had our little falling out with the Society to find out who and so has Marcus. No one knows.”
    “If Andres wasn’t the true leader,” Kole said, “if this witch or Warlock is instead, then killing him may have done nothing to slow the rebels.”
    Aylia nodded. “The problem is that we have no proof that there is a witch or warlock, but there has to be. There just isn’t any way Andres used that kind of magic on his own.”
    “So the first priority has to be to find this wizard or witch,” Kole said.
    “The first priority has to be to get any traitors out of the Society,” Nico corrected.
    “I can convince a few of my coven members to help me cast veils in the Society headquarters. The veils basically catch any spells that are attempted inside the certain areas of the property. That way you have safe zones.”
    “I thought your coven was pretty pissed about us blaming them for the Andres mess.” Kole said.
    “Between Aylia, our King, and Marcus,” Nico said. “I’m certain we can make amends.” He glanced at Aylia. “The King is calling your Priestess for a private meeting tomorrow anyway. We should probably call your mother and your stepfather.”
    “I’ll wait until we convince the Priestess all is well,” Aylia said. “My mother is pretty pissed at you.”
    “Alrighty then,” Kole said, pushing to his feet. “I’ve filled my stomach and I’ve listened to some entertaining arguing. I now know that I will soon be fighting some magic madman or woman who can probably turn me to a frog with a magic wand. I’m going to have a drink. I’ll be at Amsterdam if you need me.”
    “Of course,” Nico said. “Where else would you be but a bar where the women dance half naked on top of tables?”
    “Exactly,” Kole said and wiggled an eyebrow. “But it’s inside cages.” He saluted Aylia. “The offer to teach you to kick Nico’s ass will remain open.”
    “You’ll have to figure out how to do it yourself before you can teach it,” Nico said dryly.
    Kole let out a deep, evil laugh as he headed for the door. “Maybe I’ve been holding out on you.”
    As soon as the door closed behind Kole, Aylia turned to face Nico, her hands on his shoulders. “He isn’t holding out on you. Don’t read into that joke. Kole is not a traitor.”
    “Keep going. Make me feel better. Tell me I’m crazy. Tell me that, as alpha, blood bonded to my pack, I can smell my wolves’ emotions. Tell me that I’d know deceit from any of my Guard.”
    “Sounds like you’ve done a good job of telling yourself.” She studied him a moment. “This is about Rebecca, isn’t it?” she asked of the wolf that had attacked her with Andres, who’d betrayed Nico and the Guard. “Because you couldn’t smell her betrayal.”
    “And I should have been able to.”
    “Someone had to have cast what is called a ‘shield spell’ on Rebecca. It would have sheltered her from your senses. And if you have another traitor, I suspect, they too, have been cast with the same spell. But there are ways to use magic to trace magic. I can do it. I just had no idea I needed to when I was here. By the way, you don’t necessarily have to have a traitor for Andres to have known you had the necklace. Magic imprints on a person. It’s too complicated, with too many options to fully explain, but there are spells that allow that imprint to be picked up. Granted the spells have to be worked at close proximity. That’s why I couldn’t locate my necklace myself. Believe me, I tried.”
    “In other words, someone close to me could be using magic to deceive me and they could have used it to locate the necklace.”
    “It’s not Kole.”
    “He was the only one who knew I had the necklace.”
    “We just