gestured with her thumb that I was going to be sitting in the passenger seat.
I would not have tolerated this shit from anyone else on the planet. Why
her?
My patience dwindling, I crossed in front of the truck, not wholly trusting
that she wouldn’t run me down.
I climbed up and clicked on my seatbelt. Savannah tossed a vial into my
lap. “Where to, grumpy?”
She gripped the steering wheel, and I noticed the pink welts on her hand.
Anger and protectiveness flashed through me, catching me off guard. I slid
the vial into my pocket, worried I might crush it.
“What the hell happe
ned to you?” I growled, my jaw cracking.
Startled, Savannah tugged her sweater sleeve down to conceal her hand.
“It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it.”
She didn’t understand, I couldn’t simply not worry about it. That wasn’t
the way the mate bond worked. I could almost feel her pain and couldn’t tear
my eyes away.
But the last thing I was going to do right now was explain our mate bond.
Hopefully, that would all go away with the cure. If it didn’t, I wasn’t sure
what I would do. Maybe ship her off to Prague, or to another magical city.
The farther, the better.
I gripped the grab handle above the door, and something buckled in the
roof of the cab. “I need to know.”
My voice was low and charged with enough power to compel the answer.
Savannah’s body tensed, and she stared at me. “Casey brought me to the
family business. I went inside, and my skin blistered. It’s fine and already
better than it was.”
Better? My head snapped to her, fury coursing through my veins. I’d
torch that fucking place if I found out where it was.
Savannah glided her hand over the seat and placed it on my leg. “Are you