Chapter 36

Alex was not asleep, but he was not awake either; the dream waking had claimed his thoughts. The sweetness of her flesh. He thought of the sweetness of her flesh. Only that day, that very hour it seemed, as his waking dream brought her soft cries back into his being, like water and light.

Only that afternoon in light, how he had said "No!" to her charms. When she wanted to charm him with her spells. But even when he was saying that, deep down in his heart, he knew that he was lying.

Alex had never broken the Pack's rule before. Unbroken and unspoken the rule had been no one would ever befriend, visit or bring a witch to the house. But this afternoon while enjoying the afternoon's cool wind, lonely in the sparkling sun it seemed the gods had guided his thoughts to the border of their territory.

He sat in the study room for a long time, looking at the neatly decorated room. He brought out his dossiers, hoping to find out something that might help