chapter 99

The three of us headed back to her basement where Alec, Sheila, and Kyle were gathered. Alec was sitting up now and he looked so much better than when we’d left.

His smiling face didn’t last long, though. “What happened?”

“You gave me vampire blood, that’s what happened,” Star snapped.

“No, I got the blood from Spencer, himself. He handed it to me,” Alec said.

“Did you watch him draw the blood from his vein?” Star asked.

Alec’s shoulders sagged. “No.”

“Fuck, Alec. Such an amateur mistake.” Star ran a hand through her cropped hair. “That creature could have killed all of us if I’d completed the spell.”

“He played me,” Alec said.

“Sounds right,” I said bitterly. “Now I know why him and my mom got along so well.”

“So now the shunned prince knows about his alpha kid and he knows there’s a witch willing to use blood magic against him?” Star sounded pissed. “Are you trying to get all of us killed?”

“For once, I’d like something to go right,” I said.

Star tensed. “Who else was with your grou