Rescind: (Lycan Academy of Shapeshifting: Operation Shift, Book 4) by Shawn Knightley

Author:Shawn Knightley [Knightley, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-01T05:00:00+00:00

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“Unshift this instant,” Rodrick hollered at me.

“I can’t! It’s stuck!”

My eyes widened in horror as my hand shifted into my brother’s form. It was an exact replica of his left hand right down to his stubby fingernails. He could never stop biting them. Even as an adult. The smallest bones in my hand were trying to shift back into their normal state of my much softer and smaller fingers. But to do so, they had to break. My fingers chipped away from the inside as the muscles and tendons tightened like screws trying to budge free from a piece of wood. Only the wood was cracking in the process and causing them to loosen even more.

I screamed bloody murder as Rodrick held my arm by the wrist, doing his best to control my first attempt at master shifting. It was his genius idea to morph my hand into my brother’s form. Now I was wishing he chose someone whose physique was more like my own. Maybe Alina or even McKenzie. But no! He had to tell me to shift my hand to my brother’s likeness.

“Make it stop!” I yelled. He gripped my wrist tighter and practically pinned it down to the table. He started releasing his magic and letting it touch my skin, helping me along when I got stuck. “Not like that,” I growled.

“Then how?”

I yanked my arm out of his grip and held my half shifted hand in my lap. My eyes were shut, trying to focus all my strength on the way I wanted my hand to look. Only this was my first time ever trying a trick of being a master shifter. It felt like I was being thrown right back into one of the cells in the Bloody Tower with the moonlight striking down at me like a force ripped right out of the depths of hell. I was nothing but a helpless initiate again, hoping to pass the trials and live to see another day and wanting the pain to stop all at the same time.

Hot tears rolled down my cheek and hit my trench coat. I forced my fingers to unshift, one at a time.

I couldn’t look at Rodrick. Not when I was like this. Vulnerable and in a tremendous amount of pain.

“That’s it,” Rodrick instructed me, getting up from his chair and moving around his desk. He knelt before me but was careful not to touch my skin. “If you won’t accept my help them use your magic. Push it out of your palm and let it finish the job. You’ve done well enough today.”

I did as he said and pushed my magic out of the creases on my palm. It spun around my hand, circling between my fingers and relieving the agony of my hand breaking and remolding one microscopic piece at a time. Raging gasps rattled my lungs as I tried taking a normal breath of air. I couldn’t help but whimper once it was done and my hand was back to normal.

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