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Chapter 139
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MishanAngelSorry guys that this one is late today! I posted the issue but we were up really late with my daughter going to the ER for a cough. I appreciate your patience and I still wanted to make sure I got a chapter out today! <3 I hope you guys enjoy!
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I hadn’t practiced this enough. My work with Sky helped me know what it felt like to shift within her mind but actually doing it on my own was another story. Let alone feeling like I was running for my life. I closed my eyes and tried to picture slipping back. Getting the hell out of here while behind me the monster roared and screamed. It seemed like I had gotten out of its reach but the pull to it was back and that wasn’t helping.Squeezing my eyes tighter shut, I focused on the task of getting back to my own mind. I blocked out the chaos behind me. I blocked out the pull. I blocked out the fatigue I was feeling. I blocked everything until I felt myself weightless again. The air bent and shifted around me until I slammed into my own body.Falling forward onto my hands, I coughed and sucked in air. A hand was on my back and I looked up to see Kev, a worried look on his face. Shaking my head, I took gasping breaths to reign myself back in. My body felt lethargic and I wanted to collaps
Shift Chapter 141
It had finally snowed. Overnight, the skies decided to dump a nice layer of snow over the entirety of the territory. Not having gone to sleep after the connection with Skylar, I ended up shoveling the driveway and the walkway into the house. There was a light dusting since then but it wasn’t bad enough to need to go over it again. I was leaning against the pillar of the deck as I looked out over the road. Sky texted me this morning that she would come by after having some coffee but never gave a specific time.‘I hate when she does that.’Niru chuckled. ‘I know you do. You’re brooding.’‘That’s not why I’m brooding.’He snickered. ‘Oh, I know.’ There was a pause before I could feel his excitement. ‘Were her lips soft? Or were you too stunned to even realize it?’Groaning, I tossed him and his snickering ass back. Niru hadn’t stopped making fun of me the entirety I was awake. Jabbing that I wasn’t in tune with my feelings and that I just let her take over. That I was Alpha but she woul
Shift Chapter 142
None of us said anything. Sky was too shaken up. Her eyes flickered back to their normal color as she lost concentration. Taking her hands out from mine, she got up and started to pace the living room. I watched her as Raine and her had a conversation. Eventually, she put both hands on her head, trying to somehow make sense of what she was feeling.“Sky.” I called to her.She didn’t acknowledge that she heard me. Her heel turned as she paced back the way she walked.“Sky!” I called to her a little louder this time.Still nothing from her.“Skylar Cross!” I let my Alpha slip out slightly and she finally turned to me.What I wasn’t expecting was tears. They flowed down her cheeks as soon as she stopped pacing and I got up quickly. Pulling her to me, I wrapped my arms around her. She sobbed into my chest.“I’m holding him hostage. It’s my power that’s destroying him. Ethan, it’s my fault.”I shook my head and pressed my lips to the top of her head. “It’s not. You didn’t do this, did you?
Shift Chapter 143
The next few days were exhausting but I felt like I wasn’t doing anything. Really, all three of us sat on the rug in the living with all the furniture pulled to the walls, and meditated. We were doing a lot more than that but it’s really what it looked like from the outside. Every day though, we went until I almost collapsed. Today I’d pushed myself further than I had and ended up being told to go to bed at six in the evening.Covering my eyes with my arm, I sighed. ‘I wish I was able to help more.’Niru hummed. ‘There is a reason why Justin is also our mate. You were never supposed to take on this burden alone, Ethan. You can’t discount all that you have done. Sky would have never been able to get this far and help him without you.’‘You’re surprisingly supportive today?’He flicked his tail. ‘Would you rather I make fun of you?’‘No.’‘Then take it and don’t question it.’I would have chuckled but honestly I felt too tired. At one point, I fell asleep but I woke up when the room was
Shift Chapter 144
The air was sucked out of the room. Justin was completely focused on Sky and I didn’t want to interrupt. However, if I thought maybe something would mend the relationship between Justin and Sky, this was not it. This would fracture them further, depending on how she reacted. Looking at her face, it was completely blank. Her eyes were the only thing that shifted and it was like she was trying to search for the truth. My eyes met Kev who gave me a nod.“W-what…what are y-you talking about?” Sky finally spoke, her eyebrows knit together.“Sky, I know…I know you love him. I know he’s your brother. Trust me. I wouldn’t…this is the last thing I would ever want to tell you. But Sky…he’s not…he’s not your Em anymore. He’s gone. He has been for a long time. We just never realized.” Justin searched her face but outside of the knit eyebrows, there was nothing to give away her f
Shift Chapter 145
*** Skylar’s POV *** ‘Sky…’I ignored Raine as I drove. All the windows in Thing were down and my face already felt numb as the cool air whipped around me. Blasting my playlist, I didn’t want to hear anything but the screaming and the wind. My own thoughts were my enemy right now. Even though it felt right now like Justin was my own enemy.Ethan made me believe that maybe there was something that motivated him outside of him just attacking Emmett. I believed Ethan, thought that maybe, Justin would have something that made sense. Something that I could have forgiven him for. Slamming my palm into the steering wheel, I felt the vibration in my other hand.I was so stupid. Seeing Justin in front of me, his eyes meeting mine, and I could feel my heart beat. It was like every feeling that I had for him roared back to life. The small moments we shared, the kisses, the touches, and just simple words of affection. His friendship meant so much to me. I’d done nothing but shove all those feelin
Shift Chapter 146
I hooked my keys on the little hanger right next to the stairs. I’d stuck around the mall until the shops started to close. I watched as employees pulled down their gates and said goodbye for the night. I stayed until the last showing of the movie theater let out a stream of people. The once packed garage of cars now was completely empty save for a group of cars that were most likely employees near the north end.Even then, I didn’t go back to Thing right away. I walked around the streets. The still open shops and restaurants that worked past the nine o’clock were lighting up the roads that now had a light dusting of snow on them. I walked until my cheeks stung and my hands were cold in the pocket of my sweatshirt. There weren’t answers in walking though. Not that I was looking for them.Raine and I got stuck in a loop of ‘what ifs’ without any proof and it seemed moot to continue going back and forth. I just didn’t feel like h
Shift Chapter 147
Anger, sadness, betrayal, everything I had felt when I heard Justin attacked Emmett roared to life but now it was regarding my own twin. My own fucking brother. What else had he done? What other lies was I not apart of? Who did he hurt?I couldn’t hold it in anymore as I leaned forward and wailed. Rocking back and forth, I tried to gather the pieces of myself but it was no use. Emmett never intended on coming here. He didn’t bother creating a home. Not here. Justin was right. Fuck. He was right and it felt worse than thinking he was wrong.My stomach rolled. Oh goddess. I was going to be sick. I needed out of here. Stumbling into the kitchen, I leaved over the sink and emptied my stomach. The apple, the coffee, hell, the lemonade from yesterday. It all burned as I threw it up, tears stinging my eyes. The cuts on my legs were leaving trails of blood and I grimaced. Taking out the pieces of ceramic, I dropped them into the sink before I felt my knees start to give.Sliding down to the fl
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My lips crashed onto Sky’s and it was an entirely different feeling with the electricity of the mate bond. Niru was growling and howling incoherently in my head but at the same time, it all made sense. I wanted her, needed her. Needed everything that she would give me. The thing that surprised me the most was that I wanted to share her as well. Pulling away, I looked at Justin who was just about foaming at the mouth.“She tastes like orange citrus as well. Would you like to taste her lips?”Justin’s irises blew out and a shiver ran through his spine. He reached for her but it was a lot more gentle than I expected. He brushed her cheek and sucked a hair behind her ear before pressing his lips to hers. She molded up against his body and I stepped up behind her, brushing the hair out of her face.“Can you taste it? Taste the orange with the salt from the sea?”Justin hummed as he pulled back slowly taking her lip between his teeth for a moment before letting it go. I smirked, feeling how
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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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There was a read receipt but she wasn’t replying. Not that I blamed her. Sky probably saw right through my charade. Justin looked over my shoulder at my phone. “Yeah, because that’s not over the top.” I growled at him but continued to stare at the screen. Finally, I held my breath when the three little dots appeared. Justin was the opposite, breathing heavy as he started at my phone as well. S: Well, it’s nice to be remembered today. Both Justin and I winced. Oh yeah, she was mad. ‘Who can blame her? I sure can’t.’ Niru added his two cents. Shaking my head, I typed up another message. Mate #1: I’m sorry, baby. Really. Come on, let’s celebrate together, yeah? We can go to your favorite place in the city, have a nice dinner or whatever you want. Justin snorted. “Way to lay it on thick.” “What else do you want me to do? We fucked up. She knows it. We know it. I’m not about to lose the chance to be with her on her birthday because of it. Are you?” That shut him up as we both
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*** Ethan’s POV *** My alarm went off and all I wanted to do was throw my phone at the wall. I’d gone to bed at three in the morning and I knew this alarm was for eight. My eyelids didn’t want to open and I turned over in bed, burying my face in my pillow. This had been the first time in three days I’d gotten to bed. It was a chore dragging myself up the stairs but I’d made it.Normally, I loved doing the work behind the scenes. The problem was is that the inspector with an entire tree trunk shoved up his ass decided that he was going to nitpick laws that weren’t even updated in this century. I would know because I fucking checked. Mr. Marrow had been out three times and each time we passed the first set of requirements but would find even more to throw our way.‘You need to be extra safe when it comes to our youth. You know, they are our future and the path to a better tomorrow.’ Niru copied his grating voice almost perfectly, before growling and snapping his jaw. ‘If I could just s
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*** Four Months Later *** My eyes peeled open and I reached out for my phone. The screen flashed four in the morning and I groaned. My hand fall back against the sheets and I laid there for another moment. However, it was Raine who started to bounce up and down in my head.‘Raine, come on.’‘But Sky, aren’t we doing to do the thing?’Her exuberance and happiness made a smile creep onto my face.‘Come on, Sky. If we go early, we can be there early!’‘Alright, alright! Fucking hell.’Throwing the blankets off of me, I got up and padded into the bathroom. Going pee and taking a quick shower, I woke up enough to feel somewhat alive. Coffee would get me the rest of the way there. The kitchen was quiet when I walked in and I still continued to thank the Goddess for it. It had been a month since everyone moved the hell out of my place. There was still work needing to be done in the apartments but I left that to the contractors and the guys themselves.For now, I would enjoy the simple peace
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
Shift Chapter 172
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
