[This post is from Matt’s point of view.]
Another knock echoed through the house as he stepped into the kitchen and steeled himself as he crossed the room. He could see the shadows of a figure beyond the frosted panes, but seeing more was an impossibility.
You’ve got this and she’s got your back. Trust that if you don’t trust anything else left in the world.
Matt took a deep breath and opened the door, not entirely certain of what he expected to find but knowing in a heartbeat of seeing the figure standing on the back porch that he wasn’t it.
“Shit,” Matt breathed, then started to turn, to warn Hecate. It was action taken a second too late.
His hammer clattered to the floor as she dropped it in the kitchen doorway, drawing her blades with a cry. She launched herself at the figure at the back door before Matt could yell a warning, before he could stop her from doing it.
Only Gilad’s ability to dodge quickly stopped his throat from getting cut.
Matt grabbed Hecate around the waist to stop her from lunging after him, drawing her tightly against his chest even as she flailed against him.
“Let go! He’s come to take you back!”
“Calm down. I already told you that I’m not going without you even if that is why he’s here.” Matt’s gaze shifted toward the other man, older than him by centuries but not looking a day beyond twenty.
What was a member of the Wild Hunt doing on her doorstep, though, if not to round him up and bring him home?
Matt sucked in another breath. “You’d better start explaining, Gilad,” he said, struggling to keep his voice even. “And make it fast.”
“You know why he’s here,” Hecate said, the words nearly a sob. She’d stopped struggling, her blades hanging limp in her hands. “Matt, you know why he’s here.”
“I swear that it’s not what you think,” Gilad said quietly. “I did come because I could sense him here, but only after I got close and I wasn’t looking for him, I swear it. I came because there’s trouble and we need your help.
“There’s trouble and you might be able to stop it.”
Ohhhh shit! Well, this is going to get interesting. Definitely was not was I was expecting.
As previously stated….sorry not sorry.