Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Chapter 475

Her eyes flew open, but Rick and Shelly screamed. My mom and Toya grabbed Rick. Wendy wrapped her arms around Shelly's waist to keep her back. Rick bellowed. "ABBY!" His eyes were a mix of rage and desperation. He was desperate to save his pup. I felt the phantom kick from my own pup and knew I would have done the same. "Amy, you were supposed to save her." His voice broke. "How could you do this?" Tears poured from his eyes. "She trusted you." He forced himself another step. "We trusted you." He bellowed again, eyes flashing. "ABBY!" His pain was a bitter taste in my mouth.

I met his eyes. "You said you trusted me."

That made him pause. "I did...I do. But you just killed-" His voice broke as he looked at the growing pool of blood under her. "You killed my baby." He dropped to his knees and the sob that broke from his lips shattered my heart. "You killed my baby."

Shelly just hung from Wendy's arms. I expected to see hatred, to see fury, but all I saw was a broken woman. Watching me slam the knife home shattered something in her. Something that was so deep, so profound that I wasn't sure it would ever be fixed.

"Shelly?" I called to her, but she was gone. But I needed her to snap out of it. I needed her to feel. I grabbed the cup that had held the water and I walked to her. I grabbed her face. "Shelly, I need you to look at me." There was no response.

"Girl, you know you need to do it. You are running out of time." My grandmother's words were soft, but they gave me strength.

I nodded once, and then I pulled back and smacked Shelly across her face. Ternen and Alannah were crying, staring at me like I was a monster. And right this second, I felt like one. I looked at Wendy and she grimaced but nodded. I pulled the two to the side of the table, next to a crying Carly.

"Look at your daughter Shelly." I grabbed her face and made her look at Abby. She still didn't react.

were streaming, but his need to protect his wife overruled him. But my mom and Toya planted themselves in front of

telling me to trust her!" Rick screamed again. A gut wrenching sound that

voice was soft. "She has retreated to the back of her mind, but she needs to see it,

through the forest. She ran for a few minutes when the trees changed. The trees that were lit by

see anything?" I dug my fingers deeper

to see. I can scent the trees and follow the

I

sad, but determined. We ran in

help the dread that was

through me. If

her to snap out of

just murdered a child in front

a shattered heart. The knife in

I called out, and a wolf, blonde and