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2024-10-29 19:42:56Raine was laughing at me. I was sitting up in bed looking at the clock as the seconds ticked by. It was dark and I was waiting for it to turn midnight. Not for me. It would be an hour difference.
‘You know, he is going to be so mad.’
I rolled my eyes. ‘It’s nowhere near as crazy as I usually do it! A phone call is the least I could do.’
She wagged her tail. ‘Remember the year we poured a bucket of red Jello over him.’
‘There was also the time that we managed to get him outside so he woke up by us throwing him in the river.’
‘That year he was really mad. Caleb had to help with that one.’
I smiled. Emmett and I had an unhinged way of celebrating each others birthdays. Usually involved surprise, pain, shock, and ingenuity. I’d already planned out this year but I wouldn’t be able to go through with it. At least not this year
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“You know, you’re starting to piss me off now.”I was leaning over the hood of my new project in the garage. Really it was Emmett’s birthday gift but I’d finally had it pulled out of storage and sent to the shop. I’d been lucky that the engine was still in good shape. Most of it just needed to be cleaned, a few rusted parts replaced, and then of course throwing in a turbo for good measure. Emmett wasn’t one for a pure classic build. Which was fun but also the wires were infuriating.“I know. I’m irritating everyone it seems.”Chuckling, I pulled the wires of the new headlights that I was installing through a custom cut I had to make. I was starting to rethink giving the 1969 Corvette Stingray a modern set up. I’d need to build an entire board by hand and somehow have it fit into the body of this beauty without destroying it completely.Looking at it now, it was pretty destroyed. I’d finished the engine and made sure it would run first. But before even that, I’d stripped the entirety of
Shift Chapter 125
The drive wasn’t something I would rank up in my top ten experiences. I had full faith in the engine. I’d taken my time, been meticulous, and set up the turbo with a level of love that I had for all beautiful classic cars. However, everything else was the issue. The frame was basically just that, the frame. The sun shone through the places where the door met the main body and everywhere else. The tires were an entirely different story. Those I hadn’t changed out from when they brought the car in.‘Arbella.’‘What’s that?’I growled, the shifter sticking again before I was able to shift up. ‘Her name. It’s Arbella.’‘Why the hell…?’ Raine was growling back at me.‘Because we are going to need a fucking prayer to get there and back in this thing.’Raine laughed but it was manic. We both were completely unhinged. The thought that someone tried to attack the pack while Ethan was gone was infuriating. However, the amount of rogues and the fact that it was organized was driving me insane.‘T
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It took three tries to get Arbella up and running again but once she was, I was ready to murder some more things. This wouldn’t take me as long and I didn’t need to go past a hundred but I didn’t mosey over to the city either. Pulling up the the entrance, I pulled up to a stop about a block into the main downtown. Getting out, I grabbed my two weapons.There was a mess of wolves just chilling on the steps and in the street like they owned the fucking place. As I looked over the area, I counted how many wolves that were out here looking like the crew from West Side Story. There were definitely a leader, he was sitting in the center where I could see Sam, on her knees, tied up. She looked like she took a hell of a beating.A few of their wolves had made a bit of a red-rover line ahead of me. I cocked my head to the side, trying to see if they wanted to link arms and start singing.“What do you want, rogue? You don’t belong here.”I cackled. “You know…I don’t. I don’t belong here. But nei
Shift Chapter 127
I took a deep breath. It smelled like metal and blood and death. The red tint that was threatening the edges of my vision had fully taken over. Everything was a rose tinted masterpiece. Around me were bodies of my carnage. They dropped like flies in the path of flamethrower. It felt so good. All of them were dead. The threat was over. Looking up from the massacre, I saw a few wolves starting to make their way out of the buildings.Utterly useless. All of them. They didn’t even know how to help themselves. Yes. They couldn’t do a thing. They didn’t have any power. Not like I did. They didn’t bathe in the blood. They weren’t enshrouded in shadows. They were nothing. Meant nothing to me. Stepping forward, I smirked as my boot cracked a bone. They didn’t cry out though. They were lost. They returned to the hell they came from.“C-Commander.”My head cocked to the side, looking at a wolf stepping towards me.“W-we have it from here. If you want to head back to the pack house.”Was this thin
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*** Ethan’s POV ***I’d never seen my dad this on edge. Even as Alpha, watching him in battles for the territory, he was never this stressed. His Alpha wasn’t just leaking out, it was full blown wild in the car. If I wasn’t an Alpha myself, I would be baring my neck. It was his anger and fear that made me draw back. Sometimes, my dad still had the ability to scare me. Now was one of those time.Was I worried about my pack? Of course, but right now, we were breaking about every law in the book to get back to them as fast as we could. At this point, we were driving faster than what we could run as wolves. Otherwise we would have dumped the car and ran ourselves. The benefit of driving was also that if there was a fight to be had when we got there, we wouldn’t be too tired from all-out sprinting to fight properly.“I swear to the Moon Goddess herself, if Katerina has even a scratch on her, I will summon the hellhounds and hunt those rogues to the end of the earth. Then I’ll carry them to
Shift Chapter 129
‘We have to hurry. We have to get to her.’ Niru was pacing until he finally took over and pushed us to go faster.‘I thought you would be mad that I didn’t go to the pack first.’He huffed. ‘The pack is okay. Our Mother confirmed it. Our mate wiped out the enemy. Now, our mate needs us. Not the pack. Pack will come later. As will a lot of training.’I nodded in agreement. ‘A lot of training.’We lapsed into silence because it was far to run to Skylar’s; especially from this road. It would have been worse the closer we got to the pack but that didn’t make it easy. Every so often I broached the subject of her coming to the pack. She wouldn’t move and I understood where she was coming from but at times like these I wish she was living in or around the pack.Finally, we could see our goal and Niru jumped over the road barrier. As we ran up to the door, Niru handed over control and I shifted. My right hand slammed into the door as I stopped our momentum and jammed in the numbers on the secu
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‘What do you mean?’Niru shook his head. ‘I don’t know. These shadows, the weight of it, is what is hurting her. We need to take some of it, take her burden.’Part of me wanted to think he was crazy. The other part of me knew this might not be Niru’s mind but more instinct. Justin and I were supposed to balance out Sky. That was what Sophie and Fiona said. Sky said she would be too much for one person to handle. Did that mean we could take some of the darkness from her? Whatever the Blood Witches had twisted, whatever grew inside of her that turn her into a monster, was that something we could help pull out?‘How?’ I finally asked Niru after coming up with nothing on my own.‘I…I don’t know. It’s frustrating. I know we have to do something. We have to save her. I…feel like she’s slipping away, Ethan. I just…I don’t know how to help.’I nodded. Her writhing hadn’t been as bad but that was necessarily a good thing. It meant she’d stopped being able to fight. Otherwise, I’m sure she would
Shift Chapter 131
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
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Justin chuckled. “You mean Fast Orange? Yeah, I smell it. Of course that’s what she would smell like. She uses that shit almost every day.”I smiled and I realized he was beaming too. This time we did follow our noses. She had been here but she wasn’t here anymore. We followed it back up the stairs as she wove through the art tents and through the throng of people that had amassed. I pushed through first, following just my instinct, Niru almost fully taking over.Justin was right behind me, never once straying or getting stuck behind someone else. I followed the orange scent and it started getting stronger. Like I had just stuck my nose in the bucket of the stuff she kept in the shop bathroom. The beach was relatively quiet since it was getting cooler as the sun was going down.Near the edge of the waves, just where it was lapping up onto the sand, Sky stood alone. Her large-brimmed woven sunhat was pushed back on her head and sunglasses were set around the top of it. She was wearing a
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Shift Chapter 174
I sat on the stairs of the porch, looking out over the back yard of the pack house. Everything was so quiet here. It was nice to take a break from the chaos that was now my home. At least for a few minutes. The wind blew and I tucked a stray hair behind my ear. Looking down at my phone, I stared at the messages that were there. E: Hey Sky, I feeling a little better today. Sam made some kind of soup. It was completely inedible. She had to order pizza. It reminded me of when you tried to cook that pasta dish and you somehow managed to burn the pasta. E: I went shopping online today. Got some more clothes. Bernard came by and cut my hair for me. That was nice. It was getting in my eyes. They won’t talk about you though. It’s like you don’t exist anymore and I hate it. E: Today was a bad day. I don’t know why. I just woke up and I threw up until there was nothing left in me. Sam tried to help but I felt disgusting. I’m reminded of what I did. What I had done. It’s like it comes back
Shift Chapter 173
We headed down the road in Ethan’s truck. I was squished between Ethan and Justin in the center seat of the bench. Still, it felt nice as I rested my head on Justin’s shoulder and my fingers laced with Ethan’s. I’d need them to handle this trip.“I gave one of the new homes to Sam. Her and Emmett have been staying together.”“So she didn’t reject him?”Ethan squeezed my hand. “She didn’t. She hasn’t marked him but when she heard what you did, I think she thought it only right for her to give him a chance as well.”My heart lightened just a little, knowing that something good may actually come from all this pain. Ethan turned down the road that was brand new and I could see the new homes that were being built. There were three blocks of them that were already finished and he pulled into the driveway of one that was a block down. I scooted out of the middle and Justin helped me down from the truck.“Whatever you do, pretend like I’m not here.”Both Ethan and Justin gave me confused look
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I woke up screaming and my eyes flung open. Everything was hazy and I didn’t know where I was. All I could remember was the all consuming feeling of the darkness. How sticky my hands were from Emmett’s blood. The last sound that came from Marrok as I killed him. My heart sped up as I started to hyperventilate, as my stomach started to roll.“Hey! Sky! It’s okay. You’re okay. You’re safe.”A hand brushed my cheek but I flinched away from in.“Shit. Hold on. I’m pulling over.”I felt bile start to come up but I just coughed, forcing myself to not throw up. I hadn’t realized we were moving until the motion stopped completely. It helped a bit for my stomach but I still felt like I couldn’t breathe. Hands slipped under my arms and pulled me up from my laying down position. My head fell heavily against Ethan’s shoulder and arms held me tight.“You’re okay. I’ve got you. I’m right here.”That broke the damn. I started to cry as I grabbed onto the front of his shirt, balling it up between my
