“Them?” More tears and hiccupping. “There was another one. We tried again, and the same damn thing happened! We don’t understand why it’s not working like it did with me. And Z and Sly were insistent that we needed to keep trying because if we didn’t succeed, Volcan would flip his lid and oh my, freaking hell, he did. He flipped.” Gustavo was no longer aware of what he was doing. His mind was so focused inward on his mate’s voice and emotions that he didn’t really care if he was uprooting trees. He just wanted to get to her, to hold her, and take away every horror she’d been facing, without him. “He had Jewel’s mom. He was going to make Jewel turn her mom into a witch, but Jewel’s mom is some sort of seer or prophet and obviously has some magic, and she wouldn’t let Jewel try, so she d

