Semua Bab Shift: Bab 131 - Bab 140

I jolted awake and my eyes snapped open but my body was weight down. Looking down, Sky was still sleeping in the crook of my arm. Yawning, I looked out the window and saw that the sun was peaking through. Had I slept the entire day? I was pretty sure when I tucked Sky in the sun was only going down. Rubbing my face with my one free hand, I turned my body inward a bit without jostling Sky. Laying my head above hers, I closed my eyes and drifted back to sleep. The second time I woke up, I knew it wasn’t nearly as long as the first. Sky was shifting though, her brows pinched tight and she was curled up in an even tighter ball.“Sky, you need to wake up. It’s just a dream. You’re not there anymore. You’re right here.”Brushing her cheek a couple times, her face softened and her eyes fluttered open. She looked up at me with her brown eyes and I didn’t realize how much of a relief it was to see them. I honestly didn’t know what I would do if those red eyes looked back at me this morning. Ma

“I…” I was surprised mostly. Not just that she knew what I had done but that she knew it was an option.Her hands fell and her forehead rested against my chest. “You can’t do that, Ethan. You can’t take the darkness. No matter what.” She looked up at me, determination reflecting in them. “Do you understand?”“No.”“Excuse me?”I put my hands on her shoulders and pulled her back slightly. “If that’s all I can do to support you, then I will. My questions, how do you know?”My tone was a little more angry than I meant it to be but I was angry. If she knew that it was an option, I could have helped her sooner. Part of me wondered if she even trusted me. This was a lot of information to hold back on. She sighed and leaned back against the door. Her body language was like she was curling in on herself. As she did it, I felt my anger deflate.“It starts with chest pain. Like your heart is being squeezed or stabbed. Then, it starts to hurt

And ready, I was not.My very busy schedule suddenly got a lot busier. Every other day I had to drive up to the coven. Most of it was sat in meditation for hours, only to get slapped with a staff when my mind wandered. One thing I could do was focus on my drawings for long periods of time but focusing on nothing was not in my wheelhouse. It turned out I was exceptionally bad at it. Leaving me some days recovering just from the amount of hits I got from the two of them.“You’re wandering again!” Sophie hit me between the shoulders with the stick.I knew better than to answer or even growl. That was breaking out of the concentration completely and usually ended up with some kind of magic being slung at me. Taking a deep breath, I focused inside. It wasn’t a natural thing to do. Pushing away the pack bond, even pushing Niru out of my head, was far more difficult than it seemed. I hadn’t been alone in my own head since I was a child. Th

“What? How?”Sky turned back to the door and I noticed her hand tighten around the make-shift weapon. “I don’t know. It’s like…a feeling. Like he’s come within a certain range and I can feel him. It’s rough though. I don’t know exactly where. Just…close.”“What do you want to do?”She snorted. “Murder him?”My lips pursed in a thin line. I stepped closer and rubbed her arm that wasn’t holding the crowbar. She leaned back a bit into my chest and Niru purred. Still, her muscles were coiled up and on alert.“We need to give him a chance.” I reached for her chin and tilted her head up so she could look at me. “He’s your mate too. He’s your chance of a future. You need both of us.”“But…”I smiled. “I know. Trust me, I know. But one step at a time.”“Like?”“Like maybe we should head out into the forest? Carl said he was feral, right? So he’ll be in wolf form. We don’t know how much of him is left.”She hummed but nodded. Setting out, I wish she’d let the crowbar go but she took it with he

I tapped my pen on the desk. There were a bunch of different things I needed to tie up with the new buildings. Usually, I enjoyed paperwork. I could sink into it and not think about anything other than the words in front of me. The problem was I hadn’t seen Sky in a week. Niru was is a mood because of it and I really wasn’t much better.The reason for that was laying on the couch in my office, snoozing away. Justin was still in wolf form. We had tried a few different things but nothing was working. He didn’t even seem like had a human side, which worried me. Right now, he was the pack house pet who loved getting scratches and stole food from your plate if you weren’t looking.My lips thinned as I closed my eyes. Sky’s conversations over the phone were short and clipped when I talked to her. Normally, I would have gone to her but Justin was so attached to my side that even when I headed into the city without him, he would either jump in the back of the truck or just follow the Jeep. I h