Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#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.

“Let’s do it,” I finally said.

Kat grinned, then glanced over her shoulder at the house. We were still within sight of the house itself despite being in the forest a little ways. Suddenly, she took my hand and began to lead me deeper into the forest.

“Where are we going?” 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 air.

roots. It shouldn’t be too hard to

the trees where we could see the house was becoming smaller, and the house was turning into a small speck in the distance. I started to get worried that we

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 starting to rise. The sky

the air, like a

sure we have time?” I asked, 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

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

her hand. They were a dark purple color, and she

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

walking down a gradual slope with the wolfsbane in her hand. She kept

asked. “Do we

head. “You can simply ingest them, so long

after

crouched down to look into a hollow tree trunk. She muttered something to herself,

out here. I’ll keep an eye on you, so if it gets to

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

now, but I could

go 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 want to shift

turned toward me with a concerned look on

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