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.

Vince was trying to control you with

If I had just done what he wanted, we would have been fine." His voice was muffled against her

the other half of my soul." She was quiet for a second. "But if you would have worked with Vince to

choice?" He looked

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

She looked at me. "What does his rune

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 that he drained from anyone

When ever he called me,

could burn through some of the power fed

you ever attack Vince?"

couldn't. It was part of how they corrupted the rune. Rick couldn't turn around and attack the one that branded him

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