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.

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

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 would eventually lose our way in the woods, especially since it was getting much darker out

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 in the air of

almost a sort of static electricity to the air, like a thunderstorm

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

whip my hair around me even through the trees, which

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

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

when we find the valerian?” I asked. “Do we

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

after

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

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

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,

now, the 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

we should 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 without Edrick

Kat turned toward me with

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