All Chapters of Therianthrope: A New Kind of Curse: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Lily stared at the ceiling of her old bedroom and watched the morning sun fill the room as she enjoyed a few moments of doing nothing. She had spent the last two days attempting to reschedule her school workload, find another job, and appease her landlord. The school was time-consuming, but she’d cut down her six classes to three. There weren’t any other crime labs in the area, so she was going to look for something minimum wage which would hurt her bank account. The landlord flipped when he’d seen the apartment and started threatening to call the police, press charges, sue, and any other legal action he could think of.If it wasn’t for Andrew stepping forward and offering to repair the damage done and pay for all of it his own pocket while also paying the rent due each month until the apartment was good as new, she wasn’t sure what she would have done. She tried to offer to pay back the money to Andrew, b

He laughed silently in pleasure as he watched Lily leave the shed. God, Andrew was so predictable. Well, at least it made his job a lot easier since he wouldn’t have to go looking for her in the woods. She slowly made her way up the porch steps towards the house. She obviously didn’t believe him, probably thought he was playing with her. Not that he could blame her, he did enjoy toying with her.He ruffled his fur, watching her scream and fall to the floor as she started her first transformation. The observer chuckled silently, wondering what was going through her mind. He smiled with morbid pleasure as she changed into her wolf form. She was dark black, which highlighted a cobalt blue in the moonlight. Satisfaction filled him; he had chosen the perfect woman for his plan.He watched her get up with clumsy stiffness and decided that now was his chan

James scrubbed his skin until it was pink and tender. How the hell did he manage to get so dirty last night? He shut off the shower and grabbed a towel hanging on the wall. Werewolves were not too different from most humans. The wolf influenced them, but it was nothing a little willpower and self-control couldn’t handle. All werewolves have to shift during the full moon and the balance between wolf and human tipped to the wolf’s advantage.The human becomes a mere influence on the wolf, but it’s the wolf that calls the shots in the end. They’re able to remember what happened during the night and know where they are when they come back into control. When James shifts, the beast always gains control but James is always aware of what is going but he can’t influence the beast in any way and vice versa for the beast. During the full moon shift, James loses complete control. So he never had any idea of where he is when he was when he wakes or how he got there. Normally he got flashes during

 Lily shot James a nasty look, and Andrew shook his head. “I am sorry, James, but using Lily as bait is the only advantage we have over him, and I agree with Xavier that we must use it if Lily is willing to play the part,” the alpha told him. James frowned but kept silent.“I’m willing,” she started, then looked at Tony with a serious, but pleading, look on her face. “He’s proved that he can get to me when he wants. He’ll get me, but we don’t know when. Our best shot is forcing the when,” she explained. The Alpha and Xavier Thompson nodded in agreement. James just shook his head. She made all the sense in the world, but it just seemed too easy. This “maker” would see through it, and James knew he would have the perfect counter for it.“This won’t work and you’ll end u

The blonde smiled and leaned back in his chair. “Well, as I told you, I was disappointing to my parents. I’d been very strong and in our world, strength means everything. The other kids, mainly your brother and good old James, always picked me on. My mother and I had hoped when I could shift it would get better, but when the day finally came, I nearly died. I was just as weak of a wolf as I was in my human form. That’s when my father started with the insults and beatings,” he explained, taking the knife out again.“If that wasn’t bad enough, after that day, your brother and James decided their usual pranks on me weren’t good enough. They took it upon themselves to make every day a living hell for me! Every single day, they had some pranks on me. The bigger the crowd, the better,” he snarled, stabbing the table furiously.