Magaestra: Found: An urban fantasy series by Katherine Kim

Author:Katherine Kim [Kim, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

14

The next afternoon Aldric felt fully healed. There were still scabs covering the worst parts of his injuries, and pink still-healing lines of new skin at the edges, but they hardly bothered him.

After Faith tucked Aldric into bed, Marc had received several reports from the enforcers tasked with tracking the strange wolves off Frostwalker land. The trail ended at the road, as it had at the Latham’s cabin, so they were once again without a lead.

Mia herself had dragged the corpse of the dead wolf back to a work shed on the property to see if they could somehow discern his identity, but when that failed, they had cremated the creature and would bury the leftover remains.

First thing this morning he checked in with all of his enforcers and sentries, as well as several wolves that lived in and around town, looking for signs of the strangers. There again, he met with a dead end, and he would have given in to his seething irritation had Kaylee and Jake not crept, wide-eyed to his office door and asked in anxious voices if he was, in fact, going to die from fighting in the night.

Aldric was amused by the children's deep concern for his health, and their visible relief when he showed them the healing injuries. He promised that Faith had been an excellent nurse and he barely hurt at all. It had been somewhat tricky when Kaylee asked why he was healing so fast, and Faith had finally just told the girl who she was staying with.

At which point Kaylee turned to Jake, wide-eyed once more, and asked, in an awe-stricken voice, "You can turn into a wolf?"

"Not yet, but Daddy says pretty soon! Daddy can, and he’s huge!“ Jake said proudly, his almost six-year-old chest puffing up until Kaylee smacked his arm and started complaining that he hadn't told her, and weren't they best friends, and shouldn’t best friends tell each other everything?

It resulted in the most entertaining argument Aldric had ever witnessed before the two finally made friends again and ran off to play on the swings, supervised– and guarded again– by Tamika, who ended up answering a lot of questions about werewolves and why Jake couldn’t just tell her and why Kaylee now had the important job of keeping the secret.

"Well. That went better than I thought," Faith said, flopping into the armchair by the window in his office. She could see most of the play set from her position, but she watched him instead. "How are you doing, anyway? I've been busy with the kids all morning, trying to keep them out of you and Marc's way. We made cookies. They're in the kitchen."

"I shall try them when I get up from here, thank you," he answered. "I am healing well enough, as you saw. I may have a scar or two from the worst of it, but otherwise by tomorrow evening it will seem as if I was never injured."

"I'm glad," Faith smiled at him. "I've been worrying about you.

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