Wild Magic (Wilding Pack Wolves 6) - New Adult Paranormal Romance by Alisa Woods Page B

held it out to him, palm up, there was a cracking ball of blue magical fire floating above it.
    Holy shit.
    “You might want to be careful about touching a witch, Daniel Wilding.” Her smile was dangerous and sexy and freaking him straight out.
    A witch. He dropped his hand and stepped back. “Alrighty, then.” Witches could kill you with a simple touch—no ball of energy required—and it wasn’t like witches and wolves got along. In fact, the hairs on the back of his neck were bristling out so fast, it was like they were looking for a new home.
    She was laughing at his freaked-out expression as he backed away from her magic-filled hand. Her teasing little laugh wasn’t an unpleasant sound—in fact, it was downright sexy—but that only raised goosebumps on his skin. He’d heard the stories about shifters lured in by witches with a taste for wolf. They would trap them in an alluring haze of sex—witches were impossibly beautiful, something about the beauty spells they cast—then the witches would literally carve out the male wolf’s heart to get at the magic inside.
    He swallowed. There were legit reasons witches and wolves didn’t mix.
    Her laugh tempered into a smirk. “It’s all right, cute stuff.” She clapped her hands together, and the blue ball of fire disappeared. Then she took two steps forward, closing the gap between them, and patted him on the cheek! “I’m here to help, not hurt.”
    He backed off more, out of her reach, nearly stumbling and going down, then he shot a wild-eyed stare to Noah, who had crept up on them. What the hell was his brother doing, bringing a witch here? Much less one who seemed radically careless about that deadly touching thing.
    “This is Skylar Starling,” Noah said, sweeping a hand in her direction as if having a witch in the field with them was something they did every day. “Kaden recruited her from one of the covens downtown.”
    “Recruited?” the girl said, her voice hiking up. “I was told there were hot shifters in the mountains that I could play magical tricks with. That wasn’t exactly a hard sell.”
    Oh, Jesus. Daniel darted a look at Noah, but he was just grinning. Zoe was smiling as well. Was he the only one who thought it was actually dangerous to have a witch sniffing around a pack of wolves? Sure, Noah had some residual witch in him, but he was a wolf first —that witch stuff was buried in his DNA, giving him some bonus powers and a startling white fur coat, but he was still primarily a shifter. The downtown covens, on the other hand, were a hotbed of the Dark Arts, filled with seductive witches just waiting to lure an unsuspecting wolf to his death.
    “Come on, Daniel,” Skylar said with a smile that made him feel unsteady. “Why don’t you join us?” She fluttered her delicate fingers at the other three white wolves like they were already best of friends.
    “Yeah, Daniel,” Noah said with a laugh. “Why don’t you let Skylar bring out your inner witch?”
    “Shut up.” He wanted to say, What the hell, Noah? Daniel might have an inner witch, but he certainly didn’t want to bring it out—and telling this pixie-sized witch about it was just asking for trouble. Although, if Kaden recommended her… Daniel peered at her again. Kaden worked with witches during his time on the force. And Daniel knew they weren’t all heart-eating monsters. If Kaden had cleared her to help out with the team, Daniel should probably just suck it up and let it go.
    But then she pranced over to him and grabbed his hand. “I promise I won’t bite.”
    His heart nearly jerked to a stop. There was some kind of electric zap when she touched him, but not in a bad way—in fact, her small hand roaming over his felt not bad at all. Her touch was sending small pulses of pleasure racing into his body—it went beyond the smooth warmness of her skin, the gentle press of her fingers holding his hand palm up, and the crazy sexy way her green eyes were holding his