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.

appeared blurry at first, as if it was enveloped by a hazy cloud, but then it swam into focus.

a moment to breathe when another bolt of

at some point, I let go of

to convulse and bend. My stomach was rioting as

asked and Callahan replied,

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

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

that I clawed at the grass viciously,

I had been thrown in a blast furnace. My bones began to snap, and I

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

my veins, replacing blood and melting

Was I dying?

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

matter how much I tried, the pain showed no signs of stopping. It felt as if someone was cutting my skin could do nothing except watch and endure.

make 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

me with one hand and pushed the hair plastered to my face with the other.

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

in me when I was literally

“It’s hurting”

and my hand reached to my belly

Probably you need to get

“Do it”

took

away.

hesitated, and I repeated,

the sleeves of my dress and he gently tugged at it, careful not to hurt me in the process.

fell limply to the side and next, he pulled the

my dress. It was as if my chest was

back as I bent down, my head touching the

and muck, and no amount of air seemed to

and tugged at my

herself out. Tell her to

had not heard her voice in my head yet,

for you, my wolf. Take it

heat go down a little. Had that been

know why it was taking so long. But then I had never really seen

Callahan asked, and I shook my

to speak. I felt like a failure. All of this training

my wolf was stuck behind some