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.

moon. It appeared blurry at first, as if it was enveloped by a hazy cloud, but then it

a moment to breathe when another bolt of pain shot up

let go of the

myself as my body seemed to convulse and bend. My stomach was rioting as if I would- throw up and my

happening?” I asked and Callahan

can do it. Fight it. Fight the pain”

of relief. I was doing it, I could do it, I tried to recite it but

that I clawed at the grass

been thrown in a blast furnace. My bones began to snap, and I felt as if a few of them

and I cried as the pain almost rattled me. No amount of training could have prepared me for

my veins, replacing blood and melting my bones and flesh.

Was I dying?

Callahan didn’t sound too worried. I had to

how much I tried, the pain showed no signs of stopping. It felt as if someone was cutting my

it

open

and I

begged, and I felt two hands pull me close. The familiar scent of Callahan’s cologne reached me and my mouth watered.

and pushed the hair plastered

girl, Zee. I know it. You know it too. Fight,

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

“It’s hurting”

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

need to get rid of

“Do it”

without hesitation. At this point, I wouldn’t mind if somebody took my skin away too. I just wanted the pain

away.

I repeated, “DO

went to the sleeves of my dress and he

fell limply to the side and next, he pulled the other sleeve off too.

in lungfuls of air when he tore the front of my dress. It was as if my chest was caged and it was finally free.

as I bent down, my head

and no amount of air seemed to cool

mumbled and tugged at my hair, not knowing how long it would take.

to force herself out. Tell her to be slow and that

my head yet, but I did what he said, nonetheless.

I am here for you, my wolf. Take it

the heat go down a little. Had that been because of her furious

long. But then I had never really seen

asked, and I shook

a failure. All of this training

like my wolf was stuck behind some unknown