His Nanny Mate By Eve Above Story

Chapter 231: Shifting Early

Moana

I felt my eyes go wide at Kat’s proposition.

“Really?” I asked quietly. “You could actually help me shift… today?”

Kat nodded with a smile on her face. “It’s easy,” she replied. “You could get it over with really quickly.”

I could feel my wolf reacting strongly to this. It had felt as though Mina was coming close to shifting for a while, ever since Edrick and I marked each other, but it still hadn’t happened. And maybe, just maybe… shifting could finally make all of this ambiguity stop.

“What do you think?” I asked Mina.

She seemed excited. “We should do it,” she replied. “I’ve been feeling stuck, like I keep coming close to shifting but I just can’t make it happen all the way. This could be what I need… And I trust Kat.”

I agreed with Mina. With a smile, I nodded at Kat. More than anything, I was just excited to finally be able to shift. Maybe then, Edrick wouldn’t think that I was so incapable of taking care of myself.

Maybe if I shifted, I could actually be my own person again, and not a damsel in distress who needed a man to protect me.

do it,” I

despite being in the forest a little ways.

The deeper into the forest we walked, the more quickly the air temperature lowered. Soon, I let out a little shiver just from the chill in the

the forest that can help induce the shifting process. We need wolfsbane and valerian roots. It shouldn’t be too hard to find either of those around here…” Kat looked around as we walked, occasionally pausing to check by tree stumps or around

she occasionally bent down to small patches of weeds. She rifled through them, inspecting the leaves and flowers as she looked for the right plants that we needed. However, pretty soon the gap in the trees where we could see the house was becoming smaller, and the house

know where she was going, and so I decided not to cause a fuss. As we kept walking further into

static electricity to the air, like a

for a moment to stoop down behind a log and pick at some weeds. “It

around me even through the

shook her head and stood again. She was holding a few small flowers in her hand. They were

found some wolfsbane. Valerian might be a little more difficult to find, but we should be able to find

followed her once again as she started walking down a gradual slope with the wolfsbane in her hand. She kept

the valerian?” I asked. “Do we make

can simply ingest them, so long as you do

happens after

stopped, then crouched down to look into a hollow tree trunk. She muttered something to herself, then stood and started

out here. I’ll keep an eye on

that I felt a little nervous about all of this; I wanted Edrick by my side when I shifted for the first time. It was scary to know that he wouldn’t be next to me when I shifted, and when I looked up, I realized that

rain had begun to fall. It was just a drizzle now, but I could tell from the wind in the air that it would soon get much

said, stopping. “Maybe we can get the valerian tomorrow. This oncoming storm is making me uneasy, and

with a concerned look on

just make up an excuse or tell you that it’s too dangerous for the baby— which

but maybe it was just my nerves getting to me. Maybe she was right; maybe Edrick wouldn’t let me shift, and it would