Shifted Rule (The Wolves of Forest Grove Book 3) by Elena Lawson

Author:Elena Lawson [Lawson, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thorn House Publishing
Published: 2020-08-12T22:00:00+00:00

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It was amazing how much control you could have when you were worried about someone else’s more than your own. Monday at school was a shitshow of epic proportions. Even though Layla and Viv had both shifted and run forty miles this morning before dawn, they both had a couple near misses throughout the day.

Viv nearly bit off another girl’s head in field practice and had to fake a stomachache to get out of participating. And Layla, stuck fending off Quinn’s advances all day, nearly snapped her very canine jaws at him in the cafeteria. I expertly shifted the attention to myself with a rather dramatic sweep of my arm across the table, accidentally sending all of our lunches falling to the scuffed floor.

We had to get new lunches, which I grudgingly had to pay for, but at least it gave Layla the minute of peace to get control of herself and very politely tell Quinn she needed some time to herself.

Miraculously, she didn’t seem to have a problem at home with her brothers and sisters.

“It’s like my wolf knows them,” she explained. “Like it knows it can’t hurt them.”

She’d shrugged.

“I don’t get it, but I don’t think being at home is going to be as hard as I thought it would be. School on the other hand…”

Vivian wasn’t so lucky. She had to lock herself in her room for the night to keep from barking at her father when he wandered in drunk, but that was par for the course for a Monday night for her. She’d shrugged too, telling me that it was only a little harder than usual to keep from eating him alive.

She’d laughed.

I didn’t.

When I broke out of my thoughts, telling myself not to worry so much about them, I found Clay watching me curiously. My arms were elbow deep in soapy dishwater, and I gazed without seeing out the window above the sink to the darkening sky outside.

Clay slouched against the counter to my right, a strange, curious look dipping his brows low and pulling at a corner of his mouth.

“What?” I asked, a flush creeping up my neck.

“I don’t know what you did to me, but I haven’t slept as good as I did last night since I was a kid.”

I smiled at that.

I couldn’t remember the last time I’d slept as peacefully, either. Except maybe the time I awoke to find Jared curled at the edge of my bed. But this was different. Clay had tucked me in tight against his chest, curling and bending to form his body to mine as though he was the mold and I was the putty.

And I was the putty. The way I’d melted into him…

I couldn’t be sure, but after the first few moments of trepidation and desire waned, giving way to exhaustion, I was probably asleep within seconds.

His level breaths expanded and contracted against my back. His warm breath caressed my hair. My wolf was in her absolute bliss.

I mean, she might’ve been happier

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