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.

Charity that we would be fine. I worried that we 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

It stung.

she did. I didn’t know what they were and a heads up would have been

my best friend over this, but it was something that we were going to have to work

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 about wolves, shifters, and everything

and I felt something inside of me relax. The wood was stained

mom and Scott had gotten married when I was

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

pregnant and be able to carry the baby to term so that I could have siblings. She never acted like not having

maybe one that talked back less. He had never pushed mom about adopting or anything else like that. He was

had been passed down to Scott from his father and I wasn’t sure what he planned to do with the house when the time came for

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