Dinner was a strange affair. Apparently her mates had filled Vicks in, and the three of them tip-toed around me so much it made my blood boil with anger. I did not act out on it though; they were just trying to be nice. I drank impossibly large amounts of sake instead. This fae-on-top-of-wolf deal sucked when it came to getting drunk. It took a lot to get a good buzz, but I was determined.
Vicks, Shishou, and Stuart acted a lot like my kids that evening. They kept making up excuses to keep me at the dinner table, and then on the couch in front of the fireplace. They shared everything that had been going on since I’d disappeared in such great detail, I feared there’d be a written test afterward. I nodded, smiled, and drank my way through it.
When I finally escaped, I thought I was too tir
