Lupine (Becoming Pack) by Serena Dracis

Author:Serena Dracis [Dracis, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, romance, shifter, werewolves, Magic, demons, Wolves, Wolf pack, Seattle
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Published: 2019-07-21T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

A town car, stuck in the notorious traffic that plagued the freeway, crawled down I-5 carrying Alisa to Olympia. Monica had ordered a car and driver after Alisa told her about the incident at Prism, and Alisa did not feel like putting up a fight. The driver had been so prompt, she suspected Monica had it already arranged.

Alisa yawned, then sipped at her coffee, trying to chase away the cobwebs. She hadn’t slept well last night. Nightmares again, ugh! For the first time in her career, she questioned if she’d taken on something too big. She always thought saving the planet was worth any effort but when faced with the potential of losing her life for doing what she believed in, she got spooked and started doubting herself and her resolve. And that thought was more disconcerting than the threats.

Champion of the Environment! Until it gets a little scary, she mocked wryly. Alisa didn’t like being afraid, any more than she liked facing the gnawing doubts that now plagued her.

Maybe I’m in too deep. The last few nights had been hellish, the threats in the emails playing out in her dreams.

Then, as if her nightmares had bled over into the real world, lost paperwork along with some singularly unhelpful clerks hampered what should have been just a day trip in to Olympia. Delay after delay in the Department of Fish and Wildlife meant she would have to spend tomorrow there, too. Truthfully though, she was just a little relieved when Monica messaged her with reservations at a nearby hotel. Maybe sleeping in a different bed would keep the nightmares away.

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The rain here smells even worse! I did not think that was possible. Giltaan grumped to his brothers beyond the Veil as he stalked through the steady drizzle, picking his way delicately between the deeper puddles. They glistened with an unhealthy-looking sheen in the streetlights, and he shuddered to think of the oily mud at the bottom squelching between his toes. He wouldn’t mind the rain so much if it didn’t stink so. His undercoat kept him warm and dry, the water running off his harsh outer guard hairs in little rivulets. But the city’s cement walkways felt strange and cold under the sensitive pads of his feet.

Dead. It feels dead. Life is squashed deep beneath this cold human city, Giltaan muttered to himself, keeping his dismal thoughts away from his brothers beyond the Veil. The streets and sidewalks separated him from the Earthmother and the lupus did not like feeling so cut off from Her. He leapt up into a large concrete planter filled with small trees and crouched under the branches just to feel real dirt under his paws and smell something with life in it. He glanced upward, seeking his Lady Moon, but he could not catch even a faint glimmer of Her light through the leaves and low cloud cover.

Giltaan patrolled around the building Alisa slept in, senses alert. Not sure I could smell a summoning

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