Chapter 0396

Nina

I felt myself begin to shift just as the rogue caught up with me.

The feeling was overwhelming. It felt as though the world was spinning around me, and I was just holding onto the earth for dear life. I dug my fingers down into the frozen soil and groaned as it felt as though my bones were growing and changing inside of me, and felt a bit of vomit bubble up and pour out of my throat and onto the ground.

When I looked up, I saw the rogue leader's glowing yellow eyes staring at me from the shadows. A large paw stepped out into the moonlight, followed by a body and a snarling, grimacing face.

*Cora, if you're going to shift, it needs to be right now," I thought to my wolf, pleading with her to hurry up with the process. Even if I couldn't fight well yet in my wolf form, I could at least run once it was over. I just hoped that I would be able to outrun the rogue leader.

"I'm trying," she responded. "But I don't have that much control over it."

I groaned again, partially from pain and partially from terror. I tried to push myself up onto my hands and knees, but as I began to crawl away I felt my limbs shaking beneath me. I fell to the ground and began to drag myself into the underbrush on my belly, as though doing so would even help me to stand a chance at getting away from the rogue leader.

Of course, the rogue leader was now stalking closer to me. He was toying with me as if I was his prey. I pictured him behind me grinning widely as he came closer and closer, and at the same time his stinking scent filled my senses and made me gag.

Suddenly, I heard his voice echo in my mind..

are you running

my ears

going to get

always this painful? When I had seen Enzo and the others shift before, it seemed so quick and easy. Nothing could have prepared me for this amount of pain; surely it was just like this the first time and it wouldn't hurt like

rogue leader came closer. I heard

to complete, I would like to wait to see your pain as you shift for the first time. You know, some don't even

you want?" I snarled. "What is the Luna hiring you to do? You were a human once, just like all of the other rogues; why would you fight for someone who would murder

me to the forest floor. No matter how hard I struggled, it was no use. And no

still writhing in agony from the pain of shifting for the first time, he dug his paw under me and flipped me over onto my back. Now, for the first time, I looked at him face to face. There was

his weight, causing blue liquid to seep through my clothes. If it weren't for

were bared in an animalistic, yet strangely human, way. He

won't work, but it was a good try," he said. "The Luna made me herself. Genetically engineered

I said, shaking my

didn't answer. He didn't have time to answer, because at that exact moment, Enzo leaped out of the forest and slammed into the rogue's side. They tangled together in

onto my belly. The shards of glass from the broken vials poked through my sweater and scratched my skin, but I didn't care. I pushed myself up onto my hands and knees and choked again on my

fiercely just a few feet away from

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