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added her name to the application. The job app was a welcome distraction to keep her cool.
    “You gone long without coffee?” Julia asked.
    Charly’s head darted up. “Excuse me?”
    “You’re as jittery as a newborn pup bounding for its bowl.”
    “Yeah, I’m used to drinking it every day.” I’m used to a lot of other different things, too. “I came in with Trenton, the police officer.”
    Julia grinned knowingly. “Oh, you met the lone wolf on the force. He’s a good man. He’s always working extra shifts to help out the human officers we have on staff.”
    “Is he important in town?”
    Julia passed her the cup. “Everyone’s important around here. What do you mean?”
    Even though the paper cup was scalding hot, Charly’s grip tightened on the cup. All the while, her mind tried to figure out what she could say to get the information she needed, yet not sound too suspicious. Her approach so far had been far too bold. “I meant to ask if he’s the chief of the police or something like that.”
    Or if he’s one of the second-in-commands under Kyle, the pack alpha.
    “I don’t know, to be honest. Kyle was the only cop when he returned to town.”
    “Trenton mentioned something bad happened around here, but he didn’t go into detail.” The shop was empty, so Charly didn’t feel out of place asking the woman a question like that one.
    The shop owner paused for a moment while she wiped down a table. “It was a bad time.” She pointed for Charly to follow her to a built-in bench by a bay window. Charly imagined the open lighting made it a great spot for customers to relax and read. Julia patted a cushion on the bench. “I was sitting right there when everything changed. My daughter was at school when the town postman came running up the road. He’d been attacked. He had bright red blood all over him, and he was shaking with fright.” Julia visibly swallowed, and Charly glanced at the cup in her hands. “He kept mumbling about sick werewolves that had broken into his house that morning. They’d killed his wife and son, and then they came for him.”
    “Damn.” The word escaped Charly’s mouth.
    “That was only the beginning. After he’d showed up, my business cleared out real fast. Everyone ran home or to their loved ones, but it was too late. With each bite from the infected pack alpha, the sickness spread and the crazed werewolves were impossible to fight against. All thanks to that lowlife black witch.”
    Charly’s stomach clenched into an iron ball. Julia had referred to the blood witches as black . What else did they not know about her coven?
    “She’d come to Liam, our former alpha, and she’d cast some kind of spell on him overnight at his ranch outside of town. One minute he was there, and the next he disappeared. Only to reappear with death riding his backside.”
    “Do you think the witches will come back?” Charly’s voice was a bit quieter.  
    “I hope they don’t, but a part of me wishes they would so I can kill every one of them. We’ve done nothing to harm them, yet they tainted something so beautiful. We live in harmony with the humans here.”
    Charly forced herself to nod. “Why do you think she cast a spell on him in the first place? Maybe she had reasons you don’t know about?”
    “What reason is there to kill people?”
    “I can’t think of any.”
    “My brother made mistakes once in a while, like any man. He had a relentless ego and a personality as prickly as a cactus, but he’d never make a decision to unleash cold-blooded killers on innocent humans and werewolves.”
    Her brother.
    Julia continued. “Liam had always wanted Emma as the alpha female. He’d chased after her, even though she grew up loving Kyle. The poor fool wanted her so much he drove away Kyle to have her. When Liam bit Emma, he expected her to become his alpha female. She ran to Kyle instead, and Liam chased after her with the witch.” She settled into the seat across from