Savage Hunt by Jane knight

Chapter 12

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.

She was a shifter and

It stung.

did. I didn’t know what they were and a heads up would have been nice. If the roles were reversed, I didn’t know if I would handle things the way

that we were going to have to work out. Just like

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 about wolves, shifters, and everything else that could be out there that I was learning

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

brought me a sense of peace that right now I needed. Since my mom and Scott had gotten married when I was a

I just knew that she couldn’t.

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 not having more children bothered her, always telling me that I was more than enough for her. But I couldn’t help but wonder if

adopting or anything else like that. He was the best father

time came for him. I hated thinking about it being sold off and a part of me hoped that he would leave it to me. That i could live out

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