Formidable: Shifters Forever Worlds (Ever After Dark Book 1) by Elle Thorne

Author:Elle Thorne [Thorne, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbed Borders Press
Published: 2016-07-14T18:30:00+00:00

They’d been in the forest for an hour when Isabel decided she’d come hunting in vain. They’d walked between trees, taken paths, gone off-path, walked shoulder to shoulder and paces apart.

Nothing.

No sign of any creature that didn’t belong in the forested area.

The elusive tigress was nowhere. It was almost to the point that she believed she was seeking a figment of her imagination. What else could it be? No signs, nothing but a vision from afar.

Isabel flexed her paws, digging her tigress claws into the soft dirt. She didn’t understand the drive her tigress had to hunt for the other tigress.

She and Gio had walked side by side, two magnificent beings, clad in thick lustrous fur, muscled, fit, very definitely predators. Their pulses beat to the same rhythm, their steps matched. Everything about them was as if they were one.

Isabel pushed the thought aside. It was too dangerous to think of that; she’d examine why this was happening later.

Her tigress chuffed at Isabel, chastising her for not already knowing. Isabel pushed herself away from her tigress in her mind.

“Let’s get back to the villa,” she told Gio.

“Thought you’d never suggest it.” Gio’s tiger had a smile in his voice, and she could just picture Gio’s gloating.

“Sorry about the wild goose chase.”

“So will you tell me what it was we were looking for?”

“You’ll think I’ve lost it.”

“I may already think so.” Giovanni’s tone was teasing, belying the deep darkness that seemed to be housed within him.

“I think there’s a shifter in the forest. A white tigress.”

“You’re saying you saw her?”

Isabel stopped abruptly, studying his tiger’s features, trying to determine how he was asking the question, what he meant.

“I saw… something.”

Though she’d stopped, Giovanni had kept padding through the pine needles. He turned back to look at her, and for a brief second, Isabel thought he was going to say something.

Instead, a bright blue light flashed, a shockwave hit Isabel’s tigress and bathed Giovanni in a spotlight, making his white fur appear iridescent blue.

The explosion smashed into Isabel with a fierceness. She turned her gaze away from the painful brightness.

“Trap. Run.” Giovanni’s synced words were a scream in her mind.

But she didn’t run. She wouldn’t have left him.

Trap? What kind of trap?

The bright light began to fade, still blue, but not with the burning intensity of a few seconds ago. She turned her gaze toward Giovanni once more.

He’d fallen, collapsed on the forest floor, and morphed into his human form.

How did he shift when he was unconscious? Or was that his tiger’s doing?

His hand was close to the edge of the blue light, but still well within the perimeter.

Even in the blue lighting, she could see that his skin was pale underneath the tan. There was a field of light, shaped like a triangle, surrounding him. She stepped closer until she was almost touching the blue light. She took a step into the force field and was lashed back by a blaze of power that sapped her strength.

What kind of trap was this?

She tried to sync with Giovanni, though she knew she wouldn’t be able to, not in his form.

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