All Chapters of Shift: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

I sat up in bed, my hand outstretched to take one that wasn’t in front of me. Looking around, I tried to orient myself back into my room and not the dungeon I’d been sitting in. The bell rang again and I threw the blankets off before heading into the kitchen. Grabbing the master tablet, I pulled up the front door camera. Luna Katerina was standing under the awning, completely soaked as it was pouring outside. I flipped up on the microphone. “Give me just a moment to come down.” She looked around the door but just nodded as she couldn’t find the location of the mic or camera. I set the tablet down on the counter and grabbed my slippers. Racing down the stairs, my slippers nearly caused me to slip twice, but I pulled open three front door and moved so she could come in. “I…um…I’m s-sorry. I w-w-was asleep.” She smiled at me. “Don’t worry about it. I came unannounced at the crack of dawn. It’s my fault. I should be saying sorry to you.” I

“Our Father was cruel. To all of us. Less so to Caleb because he was next in line. Catherine also received a lesser amount due to her being next in line and her needing to be sold to an Alpha for a treaty. Emmett and I were back ups. We weren’t actually needed. Francesca saw our presence as an absolute affront to her position as Luna. Which she coveted above all else.” I moved a piece of pear around on the plate with my fork. “Em and I shared a cell that was made up into our room until we were five. We got kicked out of it when the pack was attacked and they brought back a ton of warriors to interrogate. We moved into Caleb’s room for about a year before the maids said it was too much work for them to be dealing with us as well. So, we were given the attic at around seven. It was terrible at first but slowly we made it our own. Fixed the bathroom and the floors. The roof also leaked and Caleb helped us fix that. We got mattresses for each other as a Middle School graduation gift. All

After a few moment of silence, of her holding me like a mother and child, I took a deep breath and lifted my head.“So, we can put your clothes in now. Then did you want to go out? Do something? Head into the city? I went to the mall the other day. Three stories! Of shops! However in the world did someone think of that!”Katerina laughed and shook her head. “Sometimes…” She continued to laugh. “I wouldn’t mind a trip to the mall. I haven’t been in ages. Especially the crazy large one here. It’s a bit far and we have one closer to the pack.”I nodded. “Okay. Clothes in, and then I think I have a skirt you might fit in. We can safety pin it if it doesn’t.”-Walking around the mall with Katerina was a very different experience. Besides her tastes being wildly different from my own, she was more than happy to give her opinion on certain looks. It was fun; like when Steph an

*** Ethan’s POV *** I sat at my desk, my phone up but dark. Dad said he would take the guys and bring the rogue Commander in along with Mom. This all had been blown way out of proportion. My hands itched to do something, anything. Dad got a text hours later that they were on their way but according to the Commander, it would take a few hours to get here. She could be lying or she could be anywhere within the state.Pulling out my sketchbook, I flipped opened to a new page and started to draw. At first it was nothing, shapes and items that I’d been staring at for the past hour in my office waiting to hear something back from my Dad. Then it morphed into her.The conversation, my very first conversation with my mate, did not go very well. At least, I didn’t think it did. She was seventeen. Seventeen and with enough strength and power to pull me into her dreams without her realizing it. That was absolutely absurd. Originally I though

The door shut behind them and I leaned back in the seat, my head falling back to face the ceiling. My eyes side closed and o just felt myself slip into the silence that was now the packhouse.‘I’m surprised you didn’t say anything.’‘You don’t want me to. So I won’t.’I felt Niru sitting just on the fringes of my mind. It was almost like he was trying to be there for me without crowding me. Which was unusually kind of him considering his normal behavior.‘I just don’t need sass or snark right now.’He hummed. ‘How about a secondary observation?’I opened my eyes, looking up at the white ceiling.  ‘Shoot.’‘Skylar is a Commander.’Snorting, I pushed up off the chair and headed into the kitchen. I opened the fridge and grabbed a