Shifting Loyalties: an Immortals Short (The Immortals Book 13) by Monica La Porta

Author:Monica La Porta [La Porta, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-17T03:00:00+00:00

The full moon arrived and Laura spent the whole afternoon looking outside the window in her new room at the shelter. Three weeks had already passed since she and Black moved there. The people working at the shelter were nicer than she had expected, and the accommodation was regal compared to the hole she had called home for so long. Food was fresh and never from the trash. Definitely a bonus. She shared a room with a girl her age, Luisa. Luisa was a werewolf, but she was a mellow one with a sometimes sad, but sweet disposition. Plus, Luisa loved dogs. So Black, who slept in the were-dog boys’ dormitory on a low bed with a soft mattress, spent the majority of his time in Laura’s and Luisa’s room. When he wasn’t running around with the boys.

“Are you worried about tonight?” Luisa had been rearranging a pink beret on her shaved head for the last twenty minutes. Felting was one of the activities offered at the center, and Luisa seemed to need the diversion.

When they were first introduced, Laura had asked Luisa about her cropped hair and the girl answered with a cryptic, “It got me the wrong attention,” leaving Laura with tons of questions. The sadness in Luisa’s eyes had prevented Laura from probing further and the topic never came up again.

“I’d like to see him.” Laura had told her new friend that Black was a boy. Besides Black, she had never had anyone to confess her worries or joys to and it had felt good to talk to Luisa, a girl.

“Do you know why he can’t transform back?” Luisa stilled her hands on her lap.

“No. Caelum explained to me that sometimes shifters get stuck in their animal form when they’re traumatized. They feel safer that way.” She had thought about what could have forced Black into his dog form, and all sorts of horrible scenarios had run through her mind and made her sick.

Luisa shivered. “Well, he’s safe now.”

“Yes, he is.”

She had missed him that afternoon. The boys had taken him for a walk and Black had seemed eager to get out and run in the Reserve. Laura wanted to object, but the park was the safest place for a shifter—hectares of natural reserve the werewolf community made available to the shelter that bordered it. She hugged him and kissed his fur, hoping he would be back before her panther came to claim her night of freedom.

“It’s getting late.” She hadn’t moved from the bay window’s bench. In her brief sojourn at the shelter, she had come to love that corner. Before leaving the Promenade, she asked permission to go one more time to the lake and grab her books from their hidden spot. Now, they were piled under the seat. She had read them cover to cover so many times, and yet she still liked to peruse them, sitting on that comfortable bench, while looking at the wild expanse of the Reserve. Tonight, her panther would be running among the other panther shifters in their fenced area.

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