Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Chapter 478

Before I could say anything, Alannah took off her shoe and lifted a foot, showing off the same rune on the bottom of her foot. Ternen looked a little green when he grabbed a fist of his hair and pulled back his ear, showing off his own rune. My mom looked at all of them and then turned to me. "What are these?"

"Parasitic runes." I sank back into the chair. "Abby's was a draining rune. Vince is trying to drain all the children of pack members who I can only assume wouldn't blindly follow his plan to revolt."

My mom scoffed, but then she fell silent. "You are serious?" I nodded. "But how would he even know that they wouldn't follow him?"

I raised my shoulder. "May be small things. Like with Rick." I pointed at him. "Vince wanted him to go against daddy, Rick said no. Woke up with the rune on his neck. When that didn't make him fall in line, Vince turned his sights on Abby."

Shelly stumbled back against the table. Her eyes were glossy with her unshed tears. "What does his rune mean?" She turned to me. "Amy?"

I reached out and snagged her hand. "His rune is a rune called the quickening. It's to enhance a wolf's power by feeding them an extra boost. It was used in battles of old. To give a pack the leg up if they had lower ranked members or fewer numbers." She nodded. "But his was poisoned." Her fingers tightened on mine. "What does that mean?" Her question was soft. Rick grabbed her other hand.

"It doesn't matter." He leaned into her but she pulled away so she could look at him.

trying to control you with it.

had just done what he

"I could never hate you. You are the other half of my soul." She was quiet for a second. "But if you would have

choice?" He looked around. "Even with

few things I would say mattered more than our daughter. None actually. But you didn't know he was going to target her. You did the only thing to stay true to a friend, to yourself, and to the goddess. How could I hate

looked at me. "What does his rune

the pack lands. He needed someone he could use to catch them, to overpower them. To use the power that he drained." I turned to Rick. "Vince cut the rune into Rick for the quickening to push all

the power is too much. When ever he called

burn through some of the power fed to me, but not a lot. The

you ever

corrupted the rune. Rick couldn't turn around and attack the one that branded him or else he would

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