Shifted (The Sundance Series Book 5) by C.P. Rider

Author:C.P. Rider [Rider, C.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: VC Group, LLC
Published: 2021-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Lucas and I piled into his truck and flew down the road to the Dusty Cactus.

Chandra was lying on a thick blue blanket on the kitchen floor, Amir and Earp standing sentinel. Her skin was ashen, blue around her mouth, her breathing erratic. The slash across her blood-soaked belly was deep enough for me to catch a glimpse of her organs.

"Where was she attacked?" Lucas went to his knees on the floor beside her.

His sorrow bled through our connection. He rarely put his softer feelings on display, but everyone in the group knew he loved Chandra. Seeing her lying there helpless, her blood seeping into the rough blanket, both enraged and terrified him.

"Earp found her in the road in front of the bar," Amir replied. He sounded calm, but the pulse in his throat throbbed.

"Sir, I kept her in the moonlight until she healed herself enough for me to pick her up. She had to be put … back together." Earp gestured to Chandra's middle with both hands, then tucked them into his armpits. They were stained with blood as if he'd only wiped them clean, not washed them. Tears glimmered like crystals in the corners of the elder shifter's eyes. "Parts of her were … not … on the inside."

My mouth began to water too much—a clear warning that anything in my stomach wasn't going to stay there much longer. My chest ached and my breath hitched. Tears clouded my own eyes, not in crystalline form, but in overflowing waves that sluiced down my cheeks.

Lucas's warmth flooded into my body, lending me strength and a calm that he himself didn't feel. He sent that energy into Chandra and the pallor in her face lessened, the blue around her lips faded.

"You can't heal her by yourself, Lucas." Swiping tears from my eyes, I went to my knees on the floor by Chandra's head, stroked her dark hair behind her ears. "We need the witches and Maria Cortez."

Lucas nodded brusquely. It was obvious he didn't like hearing that, but he wouldn't risk Chandra's life for his own pride. "Call them."

"On it, Alpha." Earp took a cell phone out of his jeans pocket and hurried into the empty barroom. The Dusty Cactus had closed at two a.m., so there were no customers to worry about.

"Report," Lucas said in a voice so hollowed out with pain it echoed in my head.

"No witnesses," Amir said. "Earp was in the men's room mopping. He heard a sound in the street outside but chalked it up to Blacke shifters running around after dark. Then he heard the door open and close. It didn't open again, so he went outside to see what was happening and found her."

Amir sniffed the wound. "You know what creature did this, don't you, Alpha?"

"Dire wolf," he croaked, and this time my stomach dropped out of my body.

"G-Guillermo?" I whispered. "You think Guillermo did this?"

"Know any other dire wolves in the area?" Lucas's response sounded sarcastic, but it felt heartbroken. "Amir, send out our avian shifters.

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