Chapter Nine

Timika

(Same timeframe)

Two weeks ago

“Come on Sweetheart, it’s nearly time.” Auntie Lil whispers to me. I take her hand, and she leads me into the forest. I look up at the full moon and my heartrate picks up.

Goddess, I’m scared!

She walks slower.

“Are you okay?” she asks with concern, in a hushed tone.

I look up into her lilac eyes that are always so soft and full of emotion. For a second, I remember Xander, and my heart squeezes at the thought of how much I miss him.

Aunty Lil and Uncle Garren have given up so much for me over the past seven years. They have loved me like their own, while I had gone through such a hard time. Sometimes being difficult to handle, maybe even hard to like or love. Yet, they just kept being there for me, loving me and protecting me.

The night of my 16th birthday I shifted for the first time. It was the most painful, yet beautiful and self-rewarding transition I had ever experienced!

Gaining my wolf had changed me. Morganite was the missing p