A Little Green Magic (The Little Coven #1) - Isabel Wroth Page 0,55

down to read, like another series of stones dropped into a pond, but I chalked it up to nerves of getting into my mom's journal. But then a few minutes later, Rowena and the girls came walking out of the forest, and I knew, I knew, those ripples had to have been the ground warning me that someone friendly was coming.

“It made me think about the lessons one of my instructors at school gave about how a Green Witch could stake her claim on a plot of land, and if it accepted her, it would always be her first line of defense.”

“That's excellent, honey.” A sweet blush warmed her cheeks. “So, you felt something… the land warning you about an intruder?”

Her face screwed up in the most adorable look of confusion, her nose twitching like a little bunny's.

“I don't know. It did feel different than before. More of a tiny earthquake than a gentle ripple. I got up because it seemed almost... urgent? I was standing here, trying to work it out, and just for a second, I felt that uneasy feeling of being watched.

“There and gone so fast, I'm sure I imagined it because I was staring out into the dark, looking for something bad. The lions are out there patrolling though, right? It could have just been one of them. It's not like I know the pride members on sight or anything.”

Uriah gave a tight harrumph, making a quick decision to change that, ASAP. “I told Abel to focus his patrols around the coven house, who knows if he listened to me. The guy's a dickhole on a good day.

“I'll shoot him a text after breakfast and introduce you to his crew. Next time, you'll know if it's a lion or something else. You felt it come from this section of the woods though?”

He jerked his chin in the general vicinity of the forest that butted up to the manicured lawn, now sporting a riot of flowers. Ivy nodded, her gaze searching back and forth at the tree line as the sun rose higher, illuminating the boundaries of the yard.

“That general area.” She pointed, her long finger swirling in the air. “To the right of that tree... stump.”

The way she trailed off sent warning bells blaring through him, and he crowded closer, seeking out anything strange about the area she indicated. “What?”

Ivy opened her mouth, but the only sound he heard was a breathy inhale, then her teeth snapping together before she tried again. “I threw wildflower seeds out in the grass.”

“I know, they're beautiful.”

“But that's not a wildflower, and it's not native to the area.” It took him a minute to seek out the one flower among thousands that didn't belong, frowning at how he managed to look past it twice.

He missed it completely because he'd been looking on the ground, but the slender green vine with spear-shaped leaves was wrapped around a dead branch, and it didn't look like a flower at all. The bright pink stem had the shape of a pipe, with paler pink tentacles wrapped around a white, oblong-shaped pod.

It looked more like something out of a sci-fi movie than a flower. He said so, and got a short laugh out of his mate. “It's not poisonous, is it? That thing is big enough to have teeth.”

Ivy shook her head, briefly biting down on her thumb with a deep frown pulling at her brows. “No, it's not poisonous. It's called Queen of the Night, and it only blooms in moonlight. I didn't put it there.”

“Okay, we'll check it out when Abel brings his guys. After breakfast.”

*****

He made a mountain of pancakes, happy to see Ivy demolish four of them despite her uneasy awakening earlier. He delighted in the sounds she made with each bite, proclaiming they were so sweet and rich, they didn't even need butter, but she wasn't stingy with the warm syrup.

Watching the way she licked it off her lips and fingers made his dick so hard he worried he wouldn't be able to walk in a straight line. Abel and his guys were going to give him hell once they showed up and saw what a state he was in.

Ivy was in the process of swirling her tongue around the tines of her fork when she suddenly went still. Her eyes glazed for a moment before a beautiful smile split her face. She even went so far as to bounce in her seat with excitement, her breasts bouncing right along