The Baby Shift- New York by Becca Fanning

Author:Becca Fanning [Fanning, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Cassandra

Cassandra couldn’t sleep. She was running over the day in her mind. Lucius’ comment was haunting her. She groaned into her pillow. Are you watching me? She’d meant for it to sound cute! Like, oh, I noticed your nephew takes after you despite you wanting nothing to do with him for some reason. She was hoping it would inspire some delightful familial bonding. Those hopes had been dashed, but her anxiety was higher than ever.

She stared at the ceiling. In the Greylord mansion, the ceilings seemed sky-high, stretching towards the heavens themselves. She tossed and turned for half an hour in bed before resigning that she was up and would stay up. Quietly, she slipped out of bed. She’d forgotten to draw the heavy curtains before bed, and there was moonlight slipping into the room. She padded over to the window and reached to shut the drapes when a movement of silver caught her eye.

Her breath caught in her throat. Down below, in the sprawling greenery of the Greylord estate, she saw the same silver again. It was moving. A majestic hulking thing running through the garden, just towards the edge of the red brick and carefully curated blooms. She gasped as the creature stopped, pausing to sniff the air. Was it a dog? Her feet ran before her mind could catch up. She went to the kitchen windows, which were the largest and closest to where she’d seen the animal.

The beast was still paused at the edge of the garden, the cropped grass and manicured flowers waving in the soft breeze of the night. She couldn’t tear her eyes away. The beast was so beautiful. The sky had blessed them with a cloudless night.

There was only a full gorgeous moon beaming down on the silver beast. She opened the door silently, unable to stop herself. The beast’s shape was a siren’s call. She had to follow it. To stroke the fur, to see its eyes for herself. When she was younger, her grandmother had told her tales of the magic and fury of Shifters and men. She didn’t know what this meant. This feeling was tugging her.

She tried to be quiet, but her feet betrayed her.

A branch, unseen by her human eye in the low light, snapped beneath her. She stopped, frozen as the lumbering beast turned around. If she hadn’t been able to breathe before, she lost all ability truly now.

His eyes were wide and golden, two tumbling ember flames that sparked with strength and determination. His mouth curled upwards, intimidating but not unfriendly, she thought. They stared at each other for some moments. She breathed in the scent of the air. It smelled of wildflowers and the wet grass of her summer home. It felt like a wild spirit.

And then, he turned and ran. His powerful limbs carried him past the edge of the estate and into the forest. Their position on the edge of Albany had allowed him complete camouflage. She collapsed onto the bricked path. The cool breeze struck her, and she shivered.

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