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."

bed too?" I huffed as he nudged ny bedroom door open and dropped

of the night and copy my grandma's spell book so that when you leave, you can take it with you." He kissed my forehead. "Where is

into my bed and pulled the surrounding blankets. I

"Code?"

year,

it." My dad punched in the code and pulled the book out. "I'll get this back to you by morning." He kissed my head again, but I was already falling asleep. "Goodnight

the darkness. I was running through the dark trees. I knew that if I stopped, I would be caught, and I

you, mate." I heard a dark voice call through the trees. A voice that sounded familiar but not. Like if 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

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

were pushing me to run, to play, and I

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 my body. This was a man that would

leave this forest unmarked." The deep voice bellowed out, "Three." could feel goosebumps break out along