Chapter 66. Heart of Ice

They arrived at the meeting table and Hovar noticed Giovanna's absence immediately.

"She must have gone to pick herbs..." One of the werewolves hazarded a guess when he asked, but Hovar knew she had run away.

He sat down at the table with the sorceress and ate his meal calmly. He laughed at the werewolves' jokes and toasted Hecate's arrival with Yuki and Jensen, who looked at her as if he were in love, and let the night fall as he feasted with his equals.

But when he was alone in the room with the sorceress, he had no interest, without the help of the tea, in getting into bed with her. He spent a long time watching the night through the window.

"What are you doing?" The sorceress asked, tired of waiting for him to act.

"I can smell Giovanna. She's seventeen kilometers from here."

"It took her all afternoon to walk seventeen kilometers?"

Hovar turned to the sorceress with his yellow