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My claws extended, scratching against the cobblestone, my gums bled, releasing canines.
I snapped my head up to my Alphas, their scents filling me.
“Fuck,” Derik was wide-eyed.
“Yes.” Brax grinned.
Kai smirked, kneeling down to me. “It’s going to be okay, Little Luna.”
“How the hell do you know? What’s happening to me?!”
My alphas all smiled, an excitement in their eyes.
“You’re shifting, beautiful,” Derik said softly.
“You’re turning into a wolf, Spitfire. And we can’t fucking wait.”
28. The Shift
LORELAI
I ran, my paws hitting the soft earth of the forest. It was a little reckless to be leaving the city, considering everything that was happening, but I couldn’t bring myself to turn around.
Running in wolf form was my new favorite thing to do; it was exhilarating.
The wind was like a caress through my fur. The power in my legs was addictive, and I was so damn fast.
I was smaller than the other wolves, but I didn’t care. My eyes were purple, not red, too.
My coat was a lush gray with light and dark streaks of the shade.
And through my wolf, I felt immense power.
The spell had worked.
I was a true luna now–a true mix of races. My wolf, human, and witch parts were blending seamlessly.
It made me grin, my tongue lolling out of my snout as I ran.
Kai and Brax ran with me, keeping up. They were faster than me while I got used to running as a wolf, but I was still fast–faster than I had ever been anyway.
I ran around trees, the smell of moss and pine pulling in with every breath.
And the smell of my mates.
That was so much clearer. It wasn’t a distinct describable scent; rather, it was something that made me crave them even more than I already did.
But not in just the sexual way I usually had burning in me. No, this was an all-encompassing craving.
I craved their company, their voices, their bodies, and their link.
I wanted it all at all times.
I thought I had wanted it before, and I had, but this was different. It was a soul-deep need, an ache that wasn’t ignorable until I had them close.
I felt everything within them so much more. I felt their emotions and desires as if they were my own, but it wasn’t a link thing; it was the intuition in me and my wolf. Like it sensed any shift in them.
And it urged me to feel the same or fix the feeling.
I smirked over at Brax, then at Kai, as they flanked me, pushing harder into the forest. I was circling the city, getting the scents for all the wolves, the territory, the paths the vamps lingered on.
They were there, in the distance, and their stink wafted through the heavy wind, making me grimace.
My heart still ached, still felt the crushing pain of losing Tabby, but it also gave me the need to rip the vampires to shreds.
They had taken too much.
I wasn’t going to let them take anything else. Not when I could feel the power to stop them burning through my veins.
Even as a wolf, my magic and shadows were there, moving together, wanting to do whatever I needed them to.
It was a fierce loyalty, one that wasn’t as prominent before. Now that the magic was whole again, I felt it.
I wanted to use it.
And I would, on the vampires.
And on the witches if I had to.
Derik was arranging things for Tabby’s funeral, back to being the Derik I knew–the one who put his responsibilities before himself.
I felt his pain as raw as the others’, but we all hid it. No, we didn’t hide it; we used it.
We let it feed our need for revenge.
Cain was not there yet. He hadn’t left his room with Beenie since it had happened.
He had closed off our access to him through all links and was not answering the door.
So we gave him his space.
It’s not like I could make it better or hurt less. The only thing I could do was promise that she didn’t die for nothing. The power that flowed in my veins because she sacrificed herself was potent and would help us win the war against the vampires.
“I don’t think he’s mad at the vampires, Spitfire,” Brax said in the mating link.
“The witches are who his issue is with. Mine too,” Kai growled, his wolf gnashing his teeth as we circled our run around the back of the city walls.
“You have issues with everything, Nikolai,” Derik sighed in the link.
“The witches should have said yes. If they had, she wouldn’t have had to sacrifice herself,” Kai argued.
“If they had said yes, the balance would have required a sacrifice all the same. We don’t know what that sacrifice was; maybe she did and decided not to let it happen. I know I’d volunteer for any of you,” I said, and they all went silent, but I felt the begrudging agreement in the link.
A gratefulness settled between us, a mutual respect where we stayed silent and remembered who she was.
Someone worthy of our anger, revenge, and our love.
She had it all.
I came to a stop to the east of the city walls, still in the forest.
There was a small clearing of trees, and I looked around to make sure there was no one else here.
I could just see the stone city walls through the trees, but there was enough distance that we were somewhat private.
“I want to shift back, but I want to practice out here first. In case I suck at it,” I said, a slight whine escaping my wolf.
Brax snickered, “You can’t suck at shifting. It just happens,” he reassured.
I shook my head. “For you guys. I still want to practice first. How do I do it?” I asked.
Nikolai came forward and nuzzled against me as he whispered in the link, “Think of your human form. Your human mind. Let it come forward. Remember your human thoughts, human emotions, human limbs,” he nuzzled again, licking over my wolf face.
It was a strangely satisfying feeling. His wolf tongue was rough, but I liked it.
I tried to do what he asked.
Think human. Think human. Think human.
It wasn’t working.
I whined again.
Brax closed his eyes and thought of his human half. Then the magic heated his bones. He shifted in the next breath, letting me feel it through the link so I knew what to do.
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