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 finally

despite being in the forest a little

I asked. 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 pine-filled

shifting process. We need wolfsbane and valerian roots. It shouldn’t be too

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 was

bit clueless about all of this, but Kat seemed to know where she was going, and so I decided not to cause a fuss. As we kept walking further into the forest, I felt my anxiety

of static electricity to the air, like a thunderstorm

looking up at the sky as Kat let go of my hand for a moment to stoop down behind a log and pick at some weeds. “It looks like it’s about to

I spoke, the wind started to whip my hair around me

holding a few small flowers in her hand. They were a dark purple color, and

she reassured me. “I already found some wolfsbane. Valerian might be a little more difficult to find, but we should be able to find some if we go just a little deeper into

smile, and followed her once again as she started walking

find the valerian?” I asked. “Do we make it into a tea,

head. “You can simply ingest them, so long as you

happens after that,

hollow tree trunk. She

it should only be five to ten minutes before you shift,” she said. “It’ll be easier if you shift out here. I’ll keep an eye on you, so if it gets to be too much and you lose control, you

a little nervous about all of this; I wanted Edrick by my side when I shifted for the first time. It was scary to

It was just a drizzle now, but I could tell from the wind in the

back, Kat,” I finally said, stopping. “Maybe we can get the valerian tomorrow. This oncoming storm is making me uneasy, and besides… I don’t

Kat turned toward me with

shift,” she said, sounding somewhat stern. “He’ll just make up an excuse or tell you that

bodyguard for a moment. She seemed genuine. Something felt amiss, but maybe it was just my nerves getting to