Carmel ran. She was glad to be back in her fit body, but she was huffing and puffing a little more than she expected. Kylara hadn’t had enough time to make her body lose muscle tone, though her cardio seemed a little off. She certainly had been tied up and immobilized for most of the past 24 hours, which didn’t help any.
She worked to get into her zone. She knew that she had to get off of the driveway before Gretel and John saw that she was missing and came looking for her. She didn’t know what other tricks Gretel had up her sleeve for tracking someone… she knew even less about John’s magical abilities.
As she ran, she could feel Paxi nudging at the edge of her conscious mind. She opened her mind to her wolf and Paxi flooded back in, as if she had never been secreted away. Carmel basked
