Lahat ng Kabanata ng Shifted Fate: Kabanata 471 - Kabanata 480

It was late by the time everyone had left. I took my food in small bites, in between children, but everyone was topped up before I sent everyone home to sleep. The children would wake up tomorrow charged with energy, enough to make it to next weekend. I sighed as I shut the door. Then turned back to everyone sprawled around the house. “Are we ready?” I yawned as I turned to Alannah. “Did you get all of your laundry done?”She nodded. “Yeah. I just threw it back into the bags.” She nodded to the pile by the stairs. Rick pushed up from the couch. “I’ll grab our stuff.” I nodded. Shelly pushed up and grabbed a sleeping Abby. “It’s time baby.” I shook off my magic and opened my arms. “Give her to me. I’m going to feed her some power as we cross, so when I remove the curse, she will be strong enough to fight it with me.” She swallowed past the lump in her throat and nodded. “Okay.” She slid Abby into my arms and I started to feed her energy. “Are you going to be okay to do this?”I no

I walked back to the table and opened it to the one I needed. I was reading the page when Carly came to. “Wait!” She wiggled down from Alannah’s arms. “Amy, wait!” She wiggled harder and Alannah finally let her down. She ran over to the table and climbed up to a chair. She grabbed Abby’s hand and held on. “It’s okay Abby. I’m here.” She looked up at me. “This is okay, right?”I nodded. “It should be okay. But I’ll tell you the same thing I told them. It’s going to look like I am going to hurt her, but I’m not.”Carly nodded. “I saw.” She looked up at me with haunted eyes. “I saw it all. That’s why I’m here. Abby is my best friend, and I want her to know I’m here.” I nodded once, then looked back at Toya. She smiled. “She is like us. Bonded in a flash and completely devoted to her friends.” Toya walked over to Carly and kissed her temple. “Our girl has been talking about her best friend since she came last time. She even told her dad about her.”Abby’s hand tightened around Carly’s. “

I blinked to find Shelly screaming, tears flowing down her face, scrambling to grab the dagger from Abby’s chest. I breathed a sigh of relief as I grabbed the cup again. I jumped to her side and grabbed her face. “What the fuck are you doing, you stupid fucking bitch? You killed our pup. My baby.” She grabbed a chunk of hair and ripped it from my head, but I was focused on her tears. I needed exactly five tears. Her nails found purchase on my face, and I felt the blood trickle from my face as her nails sliced through. I had to jerk back as one claw sliced too close to my eye. But once the five tears dropped into the cup, I pulled away from her grip. I didn’t want to hurt her any more than I already had. I walked to Rick, who was still screaming. Still crying. Toya and my mom had his arms so he couldn’t cut into me like his mate. I grabbed his face, and collected his five tears as he screamed at me. “I hate you. I should have let Vince kill you.” His words rolled off my back. But his

Before I could say anything, Alannah took off her shoe and lifted a foot, showing off the same rune on the bottom of her foot. Ternen looked a little green when he grabbed a fist of his hair and pulled back his ear, showing off his own rune. My mom looked at all of them and then turned to me. “What are these?”“Parasitic runes.” I sank back into the chair. “Abby’s was a draining rune. Vince is trying to drain all the children of pack members who I can only assume wouldn’t blindly follow his plan to revolt.”My mom scoffed, but then she fell silent. “You are serious?” I nodded. “But how would he even know that they wouldn’t follow him?”I raised my shoulder. “May be small things. Like with Rick.” I pointed at him. “Vince wanted him to go against daddy, Rick said no. Woke up with the rune on his neck. When that didn’t make him fall in line, Vince turned his sights on Abby.”Shelly stumbled back against the table. Her eyes were glossy with her unshed tears. “What does his rune mean?” She

I cut quickly, while she bit her lip to stop the scream that wanted to escape. Toya brought the towel back quickly. “Hold it here until I’m done. I don’t want her to bleed out while I finish this.” Toya nodded as I moved out of the way. Shelly had her eyes clenched tight as I slid by her head. “Okay Shelly, I know this is going to be hard, but just breathe normally.” She snorted, and I smiled. “As normally as you can.” I grabbed the bowl and brought it next to her head. “Breathe the smoke in as much as you can.” “I can do that.” Rick came up beside Toya. He nodded at the towel and Toya looked to me. I nodded.“You have to push hard against it.” Her voice was soft. “But try to be gentle.” She slid out of the way and Rick took her place. He pressed into Shelly’s armpit and she hissed. “I’m sorry Shell. I love you so much. You are doing great.” He leaned over and kissed her shoulder. I wafted the smoke over her face, and I watched as the smoke started to relax her. “Good.” I placed my