Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 72

Chapter Seventy-Two

"Daddy...I don't want to leave you like this." I tried one last chance.

"I know, pup. But your mom needs you." He looked worried. "She wouldn't have asked for you unless it wasn't important. And she has been pretty Insistent. In all the years she sent you here, she has never once acted like this. We always had this unspoken rule that we would never keep you from the other."

"I know." I started to worry about my mother, too, "But I don't like leaving you with this mess.'

"I'll be fine. I have Ronnie, and the rest." He grabbed my hand and pulled me up the stairs of the pack house. "But your mother is alone. So I need you to go back and take care of her for me, since I can't." I stumbled as we went and he stopped and picked me up.

"Dad!"

"Sorry pup. I know your tired. I am too."

don't you go to bed too?" I huffed as he

so that when

pulled the surrounding blankets. I would worry about the

"Code?"

birth year,

the book out. "I'll get this back to you by morning." He kissed my head again,

I was running through the dark trees. I knew that if I stopped, I would be caught, and I wasn't sure I

tried, I could figure out who it was, but right this second, my body pushed me to head away from him. "I will give you a few more minutes to run and hide. But once the time is up, I will find you. And you will be mine." His deep voice called to me and I stumbled. His words weren't a threat, they were a promise, one that made my middle clench with a newfound

in the deep night. I had the urge to turn back, to run to the voice, to see the face

to run, to play, and

ran between the trees. Her smokey voice called out. Catch me if you think you can." Her laughter filled the darkness with a challenge of her own and I could hear his responding pur. Another jolt of need shot through

up." I could hear the need in his voice. "I've waited long enough to find you and I won't be letting you leave this forest unmarked." The deep voice bellowed out, "Three." could feel goosebumps break out along my body. Nix pushed faster, dodging