Chapter 36: Magic

CALLUM

We lay there attempting to catch our breath, and I could safely say, I had never felt better.

Where my skin was in contact with Ava’s, it felt like sparks were flying along my skin. Her voice was almost musical, her laugh hypnotic, her smell intoxicating. I could lose myself in her body, stay there forever, and die a very happy man.

It was at that point when a searing hot pain shot through my body, leaving me dripping in sweat and in unbelievable agony. It was like a first shift, but so much worse.

“Callum, we need to shift,” Ares said, his voice sounding strained too. “I don’t know what’s happening, but not shifting feels like it’s tearing me apart.”

I let go of my control, letting Ares take over and shift.

Ava gasped when I completed the shift, and ran her hand along my wolf’s face. “Ares, Callum,” she whispered. “I think our marking unlocked some kind of magic.”

Huh?

I shifted back, confused. “What do you mean?”

“It was like something tingling and shimmering around your body