"Explain," I say once we are all seated.

"As I said earlier, I am a witch, and I am here to help you enter vampire territory," Ekaterina says.

"I got that part well, but I don't understand why you would. If anything, you wouldn't want to help the werewolf King's mate find her mother."

"I know a witch won't, but I am not just any witch. I am a witch who is alive because of the werewolf king."

"Please explain how that is possible."

"I saved her from a near-death ...