Free The Witch and the Wolf: Part Two by Lola Kidd

to make the line just weak enough,” he said, looking very smug. “Now it’s so thin, they’ll be able to pull you right over with no problem.”
    The hallway was so windy Rory had to sit down to avoid being knocked over. Whatever they were doing, it was generating a lot of fallout on this side.
    “If they had been able to pull you over on their own I would have done all that work for nothing!” Olaf said, stepping closer. The wind was having no effect on him and he was getting bolder, coming closer to her. She didn’t know how he had done it, but there was a portal to the other dimension opening in front of her now. A pale hand was reaching out for her leg.
    She tried to scramble away , but it was no use. The tunnel was pulling her in. The cold hand clasped around her ankle and dragged her through.
    “Don’t forget what you owe me!” Olaf called after her as she screamed.
    ***
    He was too late again! Wind was whipping down the hall hard enough to rip patches of his fur off. He had no idea how Rory still had skin. He had followed her scent the short way to the hall , but was having a hard time going up the hall to her.
    A hand was reaching out of the portal that was causing the wind. It had to be the Lost Tribe. He put his head down and ran into the wind. Rory disappeared into the tunnel when he was closing in on it. Her screams cut straight to his heart. The vampire king was yelling something into the void, but Cross couldn’t understand over the wind.
    This portal was different from the one Violet had opened. The magic felt corrupt. He only had one shot to get this right. He ran past Olaf and leapt into the rapidly closing portal after Rory.

Ten
    Magda’s eyes were red from crying. The coven was gathered at Jamie’s house for a strategy meeting. They were joined by Beatrice who had come when she heard Rory was taken. The uneasy and sorrow made for a heavy atmosphere in the living room. Since Magda and Jamie had gotten back from Nevada, it had rained every day in Cleary.
    “She isn’t dead,” Jamie said. “That’s the important thing to remember.”
    “What do the Moon Brothers have to say?’ Deanne asked.
    “They’re very angry , as you can imagine,” Jamie explained. “They’re probably going to go get their allies together and go after Olaf.”
    “Really?” Ursula asked. “That’s really going above and beyond. This isn’t even messing around in their territory anymore.”
    Jamie looked at Magda.
    “Go ahead, tell them,” Magda said dabbing at her eyes. That was the most troubling part of the entire day for the rest of the coven. Magda was their rock. They had never seen her cry, not even when her own mother’s ghost passed on. If she was this sad, was there any hope at all of getting Rory back?
    “It appears that while Rory and Cross were alone, his wolf claimed her and she accepted,” Jamie said looking at the ground. “In taking Rory, the vampires inadvertently took a member of their pack.”
    “Hold on!” Sarah said with a small smile. “That means they’ll help us. I didn’t know mates got an automatic in to the wolf packs.”
    “They don’t exactly, but they do get the protection of the pack. We aren’t sure if Rory actually wants to be Cross’s mate and to be honest I’m not even sure how this happened, but we’ll take all the help we can get.”
    “I’m going to burn that compound to the ground the moment I get my Rory back,” Magda said with fire in her eye s. “Help or no help. I’m going to make them pay.”
    “We want to help too,” Beatrice offered. “It’s not right , a vampire taking a witch. I thought it was funny before and I’m sorry about that. But I’m going to make up for it. My people will help in any way we can.”
    “Thank you, we appreciate it,” Jamie smiled at the apparition. She was still weary of Beatrice since she was a ghost. It sounded like she was much more connected and important in the temporal world then she had originally let