Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

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Chapter Seventy-Three

1 woke with a start, jolted up from my bed, and clutched my heaving chest. What the heck was that? I searched my room, sure that I would find the black wolf with bright blue eyes there, but I was alone.

"What was that?" I dropped back to my bed and huffed out a laugh. Just remembering his voice had my skin breaking out in goosebumps. I closed my eyes and his eyes flashed in my mind. "Who are you?"

There was a knock at the door and I sat up again, pushing the mysterious wolf

out of my brain. I got up and looked down at my ruined sheets. "The blood." Ugh. I shuffled to the door, wiping my eyes. I cracked it open and Cass pushed in. "Wake up."

"Cass?" I wiped my face as I turned to face the irrate Cass sitting at the end of my tossed and ruined bed. "What are you doing here?" I looked at the clock on the bed-side table. “It's six in the morning."

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"Exactly." She pointed to the bathroom. "Go shower and get ready. We are leaving here in two hours." "For what?"

tenly have until two." She pot un an

"Cass?"

pushed me toward the bathroom door, but I was still so confused.

my head as I leaned my forehead against the

get the blood off my body, anyway. It had turned itchy. I undressed and looked at the clothes in my

hot water loosened tension I didn't even realize I had. The last few days had caught up with me. The water was a dirt rust color, and I waited for it to run clear before I grabbed the soap and cleaned my itchy skin. I washed my hair a few times before

out to see a very impatient Cass. I was a little more awake to deal with her now. You want to tell

the next," she looked at the clock, "Seven and a half hours to spend quality time together before you leave" She sat heavily on

to spend time together this summer.

as I walked over in my robe. "I know." I sat next to her. "I feel like I should apologize, but I

tears in her eyes. don't want you

know. I don't want to leave

with Lynn. I don't think I could take it." I laughed and wrapped my arm around her shoulders.

would never replace you, Cass. No one would ever measure up." I laid my head on her shoulder. You are always going

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promise." I stood and headed to my closet to finish getting

the time we eat and head to the mall, it should be

Chapter Seventy Three

with her eyes. "Why are we going to the

I will have to call ahead."

supposed to be my