Savage Hunt by Jane knight

Chapter Twelve: The lake house

Tillie

It felt like the air around me was changing as I drove along the road that led up to the lake house. I didn’t know what it was about this place, but it always filled me with a feeling of coming home. A sense of peace that I didn’t get anywhere else. It was like just being here in the woods, close to my stepdad’s childhood home, was recharging my mental batteries.

Thick trees lined the roads and even though I wasn’t driving slow enough to see them, I knew that there were all kinds of wildlife creatures in the forest. It made me think of the wolf that I had seen last night.

Well, wolf wasn’t quite right. She was a shifter and Jason had told me her name was Mira.

Were their shifters out there in the woods, watching me now? I hoped there wasn’t. I didn’t want there to be, for now, I just wanted to relax and not think about anything that had happened yesterday and this morning.

wouldn’t be. She was a shifter and had kept that secret from me. My best friend had known that she was sending me off with two wolves last night and she

It stung.

a heads up would have been nice. If the roles were reversed, I didn’t

to

rolling the windows down to let the cool afternoon air feel the car. The air smelled crisp and clean, with hints of the forest that surrounded me. My hair was pulled into a messy bun on top of my head and the wind whipped around me and I took a deep breath, trying not to think

sometime soon and trim the trees back. The two-story log cabin came into view and I felt something inside of me relax. The wood was stained a deep dark brown and the shudders were painted a deep shade of green that made it just feel perfect. The way that it sat framed by thick

mom and Scott had gotten married when I was a teenager, we had spent a lot

ever seemed to bother my stepdad. Which I appreciated. It wasn’t that I didn’t want my mom and him to have any kids. I just knew that she couldn’t. My birth had not been an easy one and a mix-up had happened during my mom’s cesarean. She would never be able to have any more children after the doctor had removed her

wished that things could be different. That something would happen and mom would get pregnant and be able to carry the baby to term so that I could have siblings. She never acted like

told me that I was his daughter. That if he could have had one with mom, he wouldn’t have asked for anything different. Well, maybe one that talked back less. He had never pushed mom about adopting or anything else like that. He was the best father figure that I could have asked

wasn’t sure what he planned to do with the house when the time came for him. I hated thinking about it being sold off and a part of me hoped that he