My jaw dropped, but before I could ask, she straightened suddenly and looked toward the front door. “Ah,” she said, moving past us to return to her deck. As she opened the door, she revealed Fenris and Piers getting out of a car with Cody in tow. Relief briefly washed over me as I noticed Fenris seemed unharmed — but the same couldn’t be said for Cody.
“Move, move,” Tessa said, shooing the rest of us to the side as she directed Fenris down her hallway, indicating where she wanted Cody placed in the house.
“Ugh, how unfair,” Piers grunted as he loitered on the threshold, having not been properly invited into Tessa’s home yet. He paced in the shade offered by the beadboard overhead. A large fan lazily buzzed. “Is it as lovely inside as it is out here?”
“Huh?” I asked distractedly, wanting
