Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

I ran for what felt like hours until we got close enough to the caves I dropped down to my belly, and Erubus joined me. We inched under the bushes and then I sealed our voices around us. Even if we talked, not one soul could hear us. “Cut off your scent.” I whispered to him, and he licked my face.

“I already did.” He shook his head and then leaned closer. “Did you use magic to create a bubble around us?”

I shook my head. “No…well kinda.” He laughed. “I used magic to make sure no one would overhear us.”

He tilted his head. “Then why are you s

till whispering?”

I opened my mouth, but Megan started laughing. “I don’t know.”

“Someone is coming.” Erubus pushed closer to the cliff, peered under the edge of the bushes, and we waited. We were right over the cliff face that looked down at the cave of the mouth. We could see the overhang, and the rocky terrain heading down towards another thick forest that lead away from the pack lands. If you ran long enough, you would reach human territory. Dangerous for wolves, worse for werewolves.

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week.” A few others stepped out of the darkness. Keep moving the explosives. Once the little alpha is mated to the whore, the brotherhood is attacking the capital. There

One of the others asked. “Can’t we

it. “I’ll ask, but the chances that no

a phone in his hand. “We have her phone. The only text

“Yeah, the boys want to know if the witchling catches the tracker, if we can stay in the caves?” He held out his hands to the third, and the other man slid the phone into his hand. “No, she said nothing about the cave. Just that she was spotted by a rogue and she was going silent.” There was another pause. “I don’t know, man. They just want to know.” He sighed. “Okay. Tell the big man it doesn’t matter. Everyone is in place. We are moving the explosives tonight. We will wait here

group. “Show up for what?” One of the men leaned

ceremony, stupid. Brandon’s mating the whore, and he invited the king, because he thinks he will show up and it will be the easiest way to kill him.” The second guy scoffed. “He’s as stupid as he sounds. He had the strongest she–wolf in his hands

his hands. “No, just the guys talking about everything. Has the king responded to the invitation? I’d rather save the

voice rang out from the caves. “Even if he doesn’t show up for the ceremony, won’t the other witch be able to kill him? She said she had him under her spell, didn’t she?”

Erubus tensed. “Holy shit.”

“What? Who is that?”

head of the guard when my father was killed. He supposedly lost his life trying to give my father