The Mating Game のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 51 - チャプター 55

Orion My four paws morphed into hands and feet as I stumbled to a stop. A thick sheen of sweat coated my body, muscles rippling beneath my skin as bolts of breath fell past my lips like heavy weights eager to follow the laws of gravity.I rested my hand on the thick, scaly bark of a tree, head tipping as I attempted to control the thoughts rattling around my brain—as I tried to order them, compose them, compartmentalise them. Yet, no matter how much I tried, those thoughts remained in complete disarray on the floor of my mind, mocking me.“Get yourself together,” Diesel growled, chastising me for the hundredth time within the hour.The moment I disconnected the call, a panic attack like no other captured me in its vice grip. No amount of breathing exercises slowed my raging heart, no coping mechanism eased the sensation of wanting to peel my flesh back piece by bloodied piece. It was then Diesel took over, driving my feet out of my bedroom and into the forest where he forced a shift

KARA I no longer had to wonder what the hands of dread felt like. I knew them well now as those frigid claws worked down my body, splitting my skin one laceration at a time until I lay raw and bear under its wrath disguised as mercy. Dread was unrelenting, worming its way into every nook and cranny, resting in the darkness of every crack and growing in fortitude so I couldn’t chase it away. My head snapped in Denver’s direction and he stumbled back in shock but I swore I saw a flicker of fear ghost over his face for a only a moment before he forced his knees and back into a ramrod straight posture. He stood tall, unwavering, unflinching, even when I spoke to him in a voice that was not quite my own but rather a combination of Lex’s and mine. “What do you mean, they can’t find Percy?” “Jess went to check on him this morning. They had a plan. They were going to tell him that there were more attacks last night and persuade him to stay. But when she went to his room, he wasn’t there

MILES“You nearly got us killed, you idiot,” Timber’s snarl rocked my mind painfully. My body had finally recovered—broken ribs as good as new—but my mind felt raw from all the pacing Timber was doing. He was upending my sanity and causing my head to split down the middle as if his massive paws were eroding the floor of my mind. “I’m sorry,” I offered him a meaningless apology. Which he called me out for. “We both know, if you had to do it all again, you’d make the same decisions,” he snarled, frustration lathering his tone thickly. “You could have stopped me at any given moment, thrust me into the darkest cavern in my mind, locking me there until we were safely behind our pack borders,” I knew he would never do that to me but I also knew that he could if he wanted to. I’d seen wolves take over their human’s body before.It was an absolutely terrifying sight. “It’s not exactly safe. I might as well let you do what you need to or you’ll find another, more harmful, way to endanger