Chapter 44: Piers

Piers's capable hands grip the wheel as he drives toward the border. I perch behind him and Sage, wedging myself between the front seats. Sage has calmed somewhat, but his hostility for Piers wafts toward me like a flower's aroma and I know having my sorcerer friend here is triggering the wolf in Sage far more than anything else has.

There is only one explanation. My love's wolf feels Piers's affection for me and sees him as a threat. But I can't bring myself to ask Piers to leave.

"So," the handsome young Southway says in his cheerful voices, "where are we heading besides Austria?"

"California," I say. He glances sideways at me, a little surprised.

"Why California? Ah!" He answers his own question before I can respond. "Caine and his pack."

"They are revenants, I'm sure of it." I lower my head, mind whirling. "But they are different, Piers. Controlled, somehow. And they must have access to power, because they haven't devolved into emptiness and insanity."