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.

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 walked, occasionally pausing to

that we needed. However, pretty soon the gap in the trees where we could see the house was becoming smaller, and the house was

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 was darkening and I could feel the damp sensation in the air of

the air, like a thunderstorm could happen

as Kat let go of my hand for a moment

my hair around me

few small flowers in her hand. They were a dark purple color, and she held them

a little more difficult to find, but

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

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

simply ingest them, so long as you do it at the same

happens after that,

a hollow tree trunk. She muttered something to herself, then stood and started

that, 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

the first time. It was scary to know that he wouldn’t be next to me when I shifted,

to fall. It was just a drizzle now, but I could tell

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 a concerned look

wouldn’t let you shift,” she said, sounding somewhat stern. “He’ll just make up an excuse or tell you that it’s too dangerous for the