Page 48 of Bad Medicine

I nodded, and I wasn’t sure ifI felt relief or disappointment. Maybe a bit of both. “Good,” I said.

“Because of what he is,” hesaid, “I can’t stop him without your help. You’re not giving him a pass, areyou?”

“Absolutely not.” I sighed,suddenly tired. “I’ll see you soon, Rick.”

Lucy didn’t say a word, and itwasn’t the most comfortable of silences.

“Lucy,” I said, remembering thevampire elder’s words, “the council thinks you’re a seer. Not just a seer, butmy seer.”

“Which makes sense,” she said,“considering you’re a wolf alpha. Don’t you all have one?” Her smile wasgenuine and her eyes bright. “I love that idea, Kait.” She nodded, then staredout her window at the darkness flying by. “I’m your seer. I should tell youwhat I see.”

“That’d be awesome,” I said.

She looked at me. “Don’t besarcastic, missy. I tell you everything I can.”

I grinned. “I know you’d tellme anything I really needed to know. I trust you.”

She burst into tears.

“Hey,” I said, reaching for herhand. “What’s going on, Luce?”

She took a deep, watery breath.“You know I love you, Kait. I owe you everything. There are some private thingsthat I dream or “see” but I can’t share, because they should never have beenshared with me. I see these things, but I have to keep them to myself, as muchas I don’t want to. Do you know what I’m saying?”

“I think so.” I squeezed hercold fingers, then let go of her to turn the heat up. “You don’t have to sharethe things you see with me—but if you learn something that will help me save alife, or if it’s about me and I really need to know, I’d appreciate the hellout of a heads-up.”

She sniffed, then wiped hertears away with the back of her hand. “Okay,” she whispered. “I’m sorry, Kait.”

“For what?”

“For knowing things that arenone of my business. And…” But she stopped there.

Honestly, she was starting tofreak me out a little bit. “If someone’s in danger, you’ll tell me,” I said.“My mother is okay, isn’t she?”

“Yes. She’s fine.” She turnedquickly in her seat and snatched my hand back into hers. “She loves you, Kait.So, so much.”

I frowned. “I know she does.”She didn’t have to tell me that whatever secrets she’d learned had to do withmy mother. And as soon as I’d taken care of the Stone Moon alpha, I was goingto have a chat with Mom.

We made the rest of the shorttrip in a silence broken only by Ash’s snoring. When we arrived at Shadowfield,Zach and Jared were sitting outside Shadowfield Inn on one of the ornate metalbenches, waiting for us.

Ash went from one to the other,collecting his pats and belly rubs while one of the wolves came out to carryour overnight bags to our rooms.

“Take Kait’s bags to my house,”Jared said, then turned away when two of his warriors walked over and after anod to me, asked Jared if they could speak with him.

I handed the bags over to thewaiting wolf. It wasn’t like they were unaware we were sleeping together. ThatI was their alpha’s mate—unofficially.

“Anything else from theshapeshifter?” Zach asked. He looked up at me from where he crouched on theground, petting an ecstatic Ash.

I didn’t answer for a fewmoments as I studied his appearance. He looked healthier than I’d ever seenhim. There was something in his eyes that had been missing before. Peace.Finally, I shook my head. “Not since he sent me to the woman he killed outsidethe salon.”

“I heard about that,” he said,standing. “A gift.”

“Yeah. You look great, Zach.Happy.”

“I survived Axton,” he said,and just for a second, the familiar haunted look flashed through his eyes.“Everything he put inside me is gone.” He smiled, and it was like the nightbrightened. “He is gone, so yeah, I’m happy.”

I nodded, then reached out tosqueeze his arm. “Good.”

“I’m going to take Ash in andget him settled,” Lucy said. “I’ll see you in the morning, Kait.” She flashedZach a smile and then hurried into the inn, Ash at her heels.