Tides of Spring: A Dark Shapeshifter Urban Fantasy (Echoes of the Past Book 3) by H.B. Lyne

Author:H.B. Lyne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Published: 2015-10-16T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

It was sunset when Stalker arrived back in St. Catherine's and met up with the rest of the pack. Weaver greeted her with a hug.

'Everything okay?' she asked softly.

'Fine, just trying to find my parents. I need to get access to the Scroll Archive. What do you think the chances are of Scribe letting me in?'

'Slim to none,' Weaver said with a sad smile.

'I thought so. What's happening here, anyway? Are we meeting back up with Claws?'

'We're heading back to the warehouse now,' Wind Talker replied, suddenly right beside her. She recoiled from him and moved around Weaver to link arms with Eyes for the walk back. She felt Wind Talker's gaze on her as they hurried along the bustling, rush hour street. Fine drizzle began to fall and the orange street lights shone on the glistening street. Eyes placed a hand over hers on his arm and glanced cautiously at her.

'You need to give him a break, you know?'

'How can you say that to me?' she hissed under her breath.

'Of all people, Stalker, I have the most reason to be angry with him, but I'm finding peace with what has happened. He was right to challenge me, and win. You need to accept him as our Alpha. You need to forgive him.'

She glared at him. Their linked arms had become tense, but neither of them broke the link.

'I don't for a second believe that you've forgiven him, and I won't be doing so any time soon. It wasn't just the challenge, maybe that was called for, but what he did right before that, and the way he fought you on the beach in the wake of it. It was cold, Eyes, he is cold. I don't trust him.'

'I didn't say I had forgiven him,' Eyes whispered, with a small smile on his lips. 'But we both need to, or it'll tear this pack apart.'

'Well, that'll be on him, not us.'

Eyes released her arm and sighed. He shoved his hands into the deep pockets of his long, black coat and trudged ahead through the rain. Stalker watched his back with a scowl, as she puzzled over his words. How long could she stay angry? She wasn't sure. She had never exactly found it easy to let go of things, she clung to slights from other kids at school for a long time. Since she changed for the first time too many things had happened that had filled her with rage, they kept on stacking up and she had yet to let any of them go. It had been three months since the Blue Moon had been slaughtered, and it still hurt most days. The desire to avenge their deaths still motivated almost everything they did as a pack. War was brewing with the Witches, she knew it wouldn't be long now before it would come to open battle.

Everything they were doing now, to strengthen Unchained Lightning, was so that he would stay with them and help them fight. She thought of Shadow's Step's name on the cenotaph and wondered who had carved it there.

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