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The Werewolves of Woolsey Castle

Having to keep Biffy mortal made for a pretty inconant, could e ride with aplomb, but when one must stay attached in some manner to a dandy, even the most ood thing I enjoy your co to handle daily tasks with soreeable affixed Like my husband, for exa Conall affixed to her, but only for a limited amount of tiru in the carriage together Woolsey Castle looht Lady Maccon, being a woarded her domain with an eye toward its practicality as an abode for olves rather than an architectural endeavor Which was good, as it was rather h to happen upon it during daylight could tender only one coly situated And it was, atop rising ground in extensive, if slightly unkerounds with a cobbled courtyard and decent stables

"Oh, you know perfectly hat I mean, husband We’ve had to stay attached before, but customarily only when violence was iave her his version of a seductive look

She s on his best behavior, "Thank you for the coize for the inconvenience"

"So long as there are no more zombie porcupines, we should do very well"

"Shouldn’t be," said her husband "Seems the hives have officially declared a cease-fire Hard to tell truth with vampires but they appear to be pleased with the idea of Lord Akelda our child"

"Well, at least soe Georgianbuttresses On her --a creature larger than her thuel, with a nose like an elephant, horns like a bull, and s It stayed aloft in an erratic up-and-downof its size and shape ought not to be able to fly Woolsey Castle was built, in principle, upon : ily, and iht or, indeed, why it bothered to do so

Since Lord and Lady Maccon had set forth to their country seat with no warning, their unanticipated arrival at Woolsey threw the residents into a tizzy Lord Maccon swept into the bevy of sprightly young ated in the courtyard, taller than most by a head, and carved a path before hi, Woolsey’s Gareet theh he had only just arisen, despite the lateness of the hour "My lord, you were not expected until full ency trip Have to stick certain persons down the dungeon sooner than anticipated" There were rueon, but regardless of initial intent it had proved ideal for a olf pack In fact, the whole house ell suited In addition to a well-fortified holding area and brick walls, there were no less than fourteen bedroo parlors, and several precarious-looking but fully functional towers, one of which Lord and Lady Maccon utilized as their boudoir

Channing waved a hand at a gaggle of clavigers, directing the Lady Maccon fro an ear to a murmured report from one of his pack He left his wife to see to Biffy, secure in the knowledge that if nothing else, Alexia was good at setting a gentleeon

Lady Maccon, happy to lean upon Biffy, for exhaustion was beginning to take its toll oncedandy safely into one of the s the requisite aed weaponry, just in case Lady Maccon lost her grip

Alexia did not want to let go, for Biffy’s face was pale with the i process for all olves to endure, but the new ones had it the worst, for they were not yet accustomed to the sensation, and they were forced into it more frequently by their own lack of control

Biffy clearly did not care to leave contact with the safe haven of her preternatural skin, but he was too entleman to say He would be more ht than to transfor monster

Alexia averted her eyes and kept her hand to the back of his head, her fingers buried in his thick chocolate brown hair, while the clavigers stripped hiant wrists Conscious of his fading dignity, she kept a strea matters fashionable and decorative

"We are ready, , as he exited the prison cell The other stood outside the silver-plated bars, ready to slah

"I a iven ertips just touching

"Now," said Lady Maccon, and she broke contact, h the door and into the viewing hall

Biffy, ht do before she could touch hi all his regained supernatural strength and speed, before the change descended upon him

Alexia found the olf transfor occurrence and enjoyed watching it, as one er olves Her husband, Professor Lyall, and even Major Channing couldfor the experience Biffy could not The an to scream Lady Maccon had learned over the past several months that there is no worse noise in the universe than a proud, kind young ans broke and re-for she had wax to stopper her ears, Alexia firers and ushered hi hullabaloo of the pack, leaving the other to stand solitary vigil over a broken man

"You really want that?" she asked her escort

The claviger did not try to hedge Everyone knew Lady Maccon to be direct in her conversation and intolerant of shilly-shallying "Ihtly, no e or the price"

"But at such a cost as that?"

"I would be choosing it,for vampire instead?"

"To suck blood for survival and never see the sun again? No, thank you, my lady I’ll take my chances with the pain and the curse, should I be so lucky as to have the choice"

"Brave lad" She patted his arm as they attained the top of the stair

The hubbub resulting from the sudden arrival of Alphas in their midst had settled down into the pleasant boisterous hu hunting, others thought a gaht wrestlingthat