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.

eyes flew open as I stared at the moon. It appeared blurry at first, as

breathe when another bolt

point, I let go of

my body seemed to convulse and bend. My stomach was rioting as if

I asked

are shifting, Zee. You can do it. Fight it.

his soothing voice gave me a moment of relief. I was doing it, I could do it, I tried to recite

doubled back and fell on the ground, my face eating dirt. The pain was so intense that I clawed at the grass viciously, trying to dig into the earth, trying

to make matters worse, I was feeling extremely hot. As if I had been thrown in a blast furnace. My

out of my eyes and I cried as the

felt like liquid fire running through my veins, replacing blood and melting my

Was I dying?

Callahan didn’t sound too worried. I had to trust him. I

stopping. It felt as if

make it go away!!”

open

and I

begged, and I felt two hands pull me close. The familiar scent

embraced me with one hand and pushed the hair plastered to my

I know it. You know it too.

made my skin shiver. How could he believe in me when I

“It’s hurting”

and my hand reached to my belly as I

to

“Do it”

mind if somebody took my skin away too. I just wanted the pain to go

away.

hesitated, and I repeated,

my dress and he gently tugged at it, careful

and next, he pulled the other sleeve

of air when he tore the front of my dress. It was as if

my back as I bent down, my head touching the forest ground and

was covered in sweat and muck, and no amount of air seemed to cool me down.

so hot,” I mumbled and tugged at my hair, not

to force herself out. Tell her to be slow and that you are helping

her voice in my head yet,

for you, my wolf. Take it slow”

been because of her furious attempts

so long. But then I had never really

up?” Callahan asked, and I shook

frowned, unsure of what to speak. I felt like a failure. All

my wolf was stuck behind some unknown