Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 186

Chapter 186

"On goddess. What happened?" Wendy covered her mouth,

I closed my eyes, remembering the scene. "He dropped to lus knees, and howled. It was the most heartbreaking noise I have ever heard. Then in seconds, his eyes changed from the crystal green they were to blood red. His face half shifted, and with the last remaining shred of humanity he had, instead of attacking us, he took off into the forest."

"He went rabid that quickly?" Micca's mouth dropped open.

"It isn't a slow process." Rowan clasped his hands and leaned on his knees. "It's like the human soul is ripped from the wolves. Leaving the beast alone with the pain and having no way to work through it."

I nodded. "There has been only one rabid wolf in history that has come back from it." I remembered my father told me the story of the wolf after I watched the man go rabid. "It was a she-wolf that had been betrayed by her mate. He killed their pup because it was a girl and he wanted a boy. She went rabid and stayed in the wild for a hundred and sixty-three years."

"How did she come back?" Hanna gripped the edge of her seat.

They

"How do you know?"

a secret Ronnie kept close to his chest, but his mother was the only wolf to pull herself back from the wild. "Her wolf

used her as my boogie man." I laughed. The ridiculousness of a Lycan being afraid of a she-wolf was hilarious. But Rowan shook his head. "You laugh now, but when Shan was alive, she was terrifying. My dad was super close to Gavin and Ronnie, to the absolute annoyance of Vince and Carren." Everyone furrowed their brows. "Amy's grandfather. He hated the fact that

Wendy was invested in the story, I could tell, and I

his thirties or forties. But Garren refused until thirty years ago. Gavin stepped up when I was young." He slipped his hand on to mine. "I grew up with your dad being my uncle. And when my father died, and I blamed him, he

could see his whole demeanor change. H was hurting, and he thought

of keeping my father safe. Our guards were. The council my father appointed was. And they failed." He clasped his hand in mine and looked into my eyes. "He was protecting what was most important to him. You and your mother. And then he was fixing his pack, then losing you and your mother. When I finally found out the truth about what happened, I knew he had

done his best for me in my

my dad did." Rowan smiled and the dropped my hand. "Now that we have that out of the

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