Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

Chapter 92

Zenovia

“I…I felt something,” I muttered, and subconsciously pulled Callahan toward me. He let me as I almost bumped into his

chest.

“That is great,” He said and added, “Close your eyes and keep trying. Focus on that feeling”

I nodded excitedly and closed my eyes again. I tried to sense it again, my mind searching for that tug I had felt in the back of my stomach as if something was pulling at me.

But there was nothing.

I focused hard, but again I felt emptiness. Feeling nervous, my eyes flew open, and I blurted out worriedly,

“It… it is gone. I can’t feel anything. I…can’t”

“Shh,” Callahan responded, placing a finger on my lips to silence me.

The gesture was so intimate that I shuddered involuntarily. He didn’t seem to notice it.

“It will come to you. Believe in it. Believe in yourself. Keep trying. I am right here”

Callahan said in a soothing voice, and I let myself calm down. This was a new side of Callahan to me.

I had never seen him speak so gently to anyone, and I had never imagined him doing that to me.

His voice was soft like a caress, bathing me in a warm feeling.

I closed my eyes as my fingers held onto him tightly and tried searching for that pull. I had begun praying to the moon goddess again. I had definitely not imagined it.

“Please, please, let it happen” My mind was chanting and suddenly out of nowhere I felt a bolt of current pass through me.

It seemed to emerge from the base of my stomach and travel up, shooting straight towards my spine and traveling upwards.

“Aah,” I winced and grabbed onto Callahan’s hand tightly.

The next few moments were something I would never forget.

Pain, blinding and visceral, tore through me. It was as if a beast that had been in a deep slumber was awakening from its slumber, shaking the cave it had been resting in for so long.

“Aah,” I cried again and felt my knees wobble. My entire body was shaking and I couldn’t find the strength to keep standing.

I crashed to the ground, and I felt a much larger thud resound beside me. Despite the pain, I noticed a pair of hands were still holding me tightly, not letting me go.

But the pain was too intense to let me focus on anything else.

the moon. It appeared blurry at first, as if it was

to breathe when another bolt of pain shot up my spine.

watered, and at some point, I let go of the hands holding me. “Nooo”

grip on myself as my body seemed to convulse and bend. My stomach was rioting as

I asked and Callahan replied,

shifting, Zee. You can do it. Fight it. Fight the pain”

gave me a moment of relief. I was doing it, I could do it, I tried to recite it but another wave of pain shot

back and fell on the ground, my face eating dirt. The pain was so intense that

worse, I was feeling extremely hot. As if I had been thrown in a blast furnace. My bones began to snap, and I felt as if

some point, tears began streaming out of my eyes and I cried as the pain almost rattled

liquid fire running through my veins, replacing blood and melting my bones and

Was I dying?

sound too worried. I had to trust him. I

I tried, the pain showed no signs of stopping. It felt as if

it

open

and I

pull me close. The familiar scent of

hand and pushed the hair plastered to my face with the

Zee. I know it. You

in me when I was literally screaming on the forest ground, sweaty

“It’s hurting”

and my hand reached to my belly as I tried to clutch

need to get

“Do it”

point, I wouldn’t mind if somebody took my skin away too. I just wanted the pain to

away.

I

went to the sleeves of my dress and he gently tugged at it, careful not to

next, he pulled

dress. It was as if my chest was caged and it was finally

as I bent down, my head touching the forest ground and taking in deep, raspy

muck, and no

I mumbled and tugged at my hair, not knowing how long

out. Tell her to be slow and

had not heard her voice in my head yet, but I did what

am here for you,

been because of her

did not know why it was taking so long. But then I had never really seen someone awaken their wolf.

Callahan asked,

a failure. All of this training

wolf was stuck behind some unknown barrier