Untamed Fate (Magic Side: Wolf Bound 2)

into the ether. “I figured that maybe if I wrote it down, that would make it

true. Kind of like a spell. Of course, that’s just wishful thinking.”

She tightened her jaw and looked me in my eyes. “Savy…you understand

how magic works better than you think you do.”

I glanced back at the words. Silver sparks flickered to life in the etching,

and soon, all the letters were shining with an ominous black light.

Oh, shit, what did I just do?

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Savannah

Jaxson was waiting when I emerged from the bathroom.

“Ready?” he asked. Clearly, he’d been waiting for a while.

“Absolutely. Let’s go on a witch hunt,” I said, mustering as much

confidence as I could.

I didn’t tell him about the glowing black words. Sam had agreed to take

care of the stall door, even if she had to take it off its hinges, as we didn’t

want any werewolves spooked away from the gym because of random

glowing magical death threats in the women’s bathroom.

But that was only one of my problems. Getting to Magic’s Bend required

another portal journey, and my stomach suggested returning to the bathroom

and voiding its contents at the thought.

“You’ll get used to it,” Jaxson grumbled as I continued to complain.

It was, as I’d feared, horrendous—spinning and tumbling and a mass of

gray, and then suddenly, we were standing in the middle of a museum. After

a valiant show of restraint, and with only a slight sprint for the doors, I threw

up in the bushes outside.

Thankfully, the rest of our journey was by taxi. Never had I so

appreciated having four wheels beneath me.

We passed through a charming little town that made me long for home

and my godmother, and then headed down a winding road through the forest.

At last, our taxi pulled up opposite an isolated two-story cottage that looked