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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way.” He turned back to the cave entrance. No, I know the witchling went after her, but the tracker doesn’t fucking matter. The brotherhood is expecting us at Vince’s pack by the end of the week.” A few others stepped out of the darkness. Keep moving the explosives. Once the little

happens if the witchling catches the tracker?” One

it. “I’ll ask, but

her phone.

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 until the mating ceremony. Are you sure the

“Show up for what?” One of the men leaned over to ask the

way to kill him.” The second guy scoffed. “He’s as stupid as he sounds. He had the strongest she–wolf in his hands and he lost her

the king responded to the invitation? I’d rather save the explosives if the idiot

if he doesn’t show up for the ceremony, won’t the other witch be able to kill him? She said she had him

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 a chance to

we see how they got in that night.” I blew out a breath as I nestled closer to him, trying to soothe him. “Calm yourself. We will make them