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.

we would be fine. I worried that we wouldn’t be. She was a shifter and had kept

It stung.

have been nice. If the roles were reversed, I didn’t know if I would handle things the way that she had. I didn’t have any secrets from her and it hurt that she would keep something this

friend over this, but it was something that we were going to have to work out.

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,

a bit overgrown and I was going to have to come out here sometime soon and trim the trees back. The two-story log cabin came into view and I felt something inside of me

I needed. Since my mom and Scott had gotten married when I was a teenager, we had spent a lot

any kids. I just knew that she couldn’t. My birth had not been an easy one and a mix-up

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

He had never pushed mom about adopting or anything else like that. He was the best

the house when the time came for him. I hated thinking about it being sold off and a

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