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.

that can help induce the shifting process. We need wolfsbane and valerian roots. It shouldn’t be too hard to find either of those around here…”

trees where we could see the house was becoming smaller, and

a bit clueless about all of this, but Kat seemed to know 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 was darkening and I could feel the damp

the air, like a thunderstorm could happen at any

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

around me even through the trees, which

her head and stood again. She was holding a few small flowers in her hand. They were a dark purple color, and she held them up to me

be a little more difficult to find, but we should

replied. I felt reassured by my bodyguard’s warm smile, and followed her once again as she started walking down a

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

“You can simply ingest them, so long

happens after that,

to look into a hollow tree trunk. She muttered something

you shift,” she said. “It’ll be easier if you shift out here. I’ll keep

that I felt a little nervous about all 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 I looked up, I realized that

now, but I could tell from the wind in the air

go back, Kat,” I finally said, stopping. “Maybe we can get the valerian tomorrow. This oncoming storm is making me uneasy,

turned toward me with a concerned

she said, sounding somewhat stern. “He’ll just make up an excuse or