Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

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Chapter 231

I ran until I felt another tug. Every time I worried I was heading in the wrong direction, or I would hear a howl behind me,

I would get another tug and I would head straight towards it. Soon, the world melted away, as it did on the way towards Amara. The edges of my vision wavered. But through the entire time, the lost woman, the lost soul followed, desperate to find my body first.

I was terrified. What if she got to my body first?

What if I was left to wander this plane, to wither and moan while she walks around in my body like it is a suit to wear, a part to play? I shivered as I thought about what she looked like before she absorbed my life, my vitality. How could anyone live like that?

But then the thought hit me: it wasn't living. It was almost the exact opposite. Stuck waiting until you find an empty shell to take over like some kind of living hermit crab. But instead of just finding a new home, you become a new person. A new face, body, entire life. And do you get new wolves? These thought circled my brain as I ran.

Would Nix and Megan have a new person, a new soul to bond with while I was cast away? Or are they also cast out and her wolf takes over? If she takes over my body, am I losing just my life, or all three of our lives?

I scrambled back to my feet.

weaved through the land, passing streets, and unfamiliar buildings. I didn't notice on the way there, but heading back, it felt like I was moving slower, and I was able to

lives, as I ran past, a spectator to their lives, desperately trying to save my own. I thought that the wanderer behind me might get distracted as we passed some many living things, people living their lives. But she was zeroed in

me, the only chance of life she has, and nothing

in. Give it to me." Her calls were like a

Wendy and Toya,

begged as I felt her

up. Think of your mom, your dad. Us." Toya

into mine in the apartment. And somehow, their thoughts, their need, their souls reached mine when I needed

faster, pushing myself to the limit to reach them. To reclaim my body, my life, my destiny. The lost

feel her need nipping my heels. "Your life is mine." I felt her

turning at the next pulse in my

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