More Than Skin Deep (Shifter Shield Book 3) by Margo Bond Collins

Author:Margo Bond Collins [Bond Collins, Margo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bathory Gate Press
Published: 2017-04-10T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Kade pulled in next to Shadow’s car, and we all piled out. I was saying something supportive and probably slightly inane to the other two when the werewolves attacked.

We parked in a far corner, around the side of the building, with nothing but a field stretching away off to one side. I presume that’s where they had been.

As it was, they seemed to spring up out of nowhere, snarling, growling, and snapping, most of them in their animal form, but a few of them in some half-shifted state, like something out of an old horror movie.

I saw Shadow reach behind her, as if going for her axe. When it wasn’t there, she crouched down and reached into the black motorcycle boots she wore, pulling two sharp, wicked looking blades out of some hidden scabbards there. She spun around, her braid whipping out in a way that made her look more dangerous than ever.

The wolves had the jump on us. We would have to buy each other time if we were going to shift to fight them.

Instinctively, Kade I put our backs together, providing cover for each other as the wolves ringed Shadow’s car. I concentrated long enough to let my vision gray out and my fangs to descend.

I couldn’t see what kind of shift, if any, Kade was doing, but as we turned slightly, our backs pressed against one another, I saw that Shadow and Jeremiah were moving together in a similar way.

The more I was around those two, the more I liked them.

I didn’t see any visible change on Jeremiah, but I heard a low pitched growl coming from his direction.

I didn’t know how a hyena shifter would stack up in a fight with a wolf shifter, but it seemed like I had heard somewhere that natural born hyenas were pretty fierce.

As we stood in the early morning light, none of us making the first move, I wondered for a moment what it would be like to live in a shifter world where I didn’t get attacked by werewolves periodically.

“Why don’t you tell us what you want,” I called out.

None of them specifically answered, but one of them laughed, an ugly sound in the sunshine.

Jeremiah answered him with a laugh of his own—an eerie, high-pitched sound that carried more menace in it than the wolf’s laugh had.

I knew I needed to pull on some of the earth magic in order to gather enough power to shift into a form that could really defeat these guys. But we weren’t anywhere near a natural point of magic. As far as I sent my questing senses out, I couldn’t feel anything.

If I was going to use that magic against the werewolves, I would have to punch a hole through reality to make it happen.

The last time I’d done that, I created some strange rift that still leaked magical particles into the hospital. None of us knew how to close it, or how to stop it. So far, it hadn’t shown any

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