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.

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

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 was turning into a small speck in the distance. I started to get worried that we

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 was darkening and I could feel the damp sensation

of static electricity to the air, like a thunderstorm could

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

to whip my hair around

was holding a few small flowers in her hand. They were a dark

be a little more difficult to find, but we should be able to find some

felt reassured by my bodyguard’s warm smile, and followed her once again as she started walking down a gradual slope with the wolfsbane in her hand. She kept swiveling her

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

ingest them, so long

happens after

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

five to ten minutes before you shift,” she said. “It’ll be easier if you shift out here. I’ll

time. It was scary to know that

a drizzle now, but I could tell from the wind in the air that it would soon get much

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

Kat turned toward me with a concerned look on her

up an excuse or tell you that it’s too dangerous for