Untamed: A Shifter Urban Fantasy (Dark Moon Shifters Book 2) by Bella Jacobs

Author:Bella Jacobs [Jacobs, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bella Jacobs Books
Published: 2018-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Wren

I race through the woods naked for one heart-hammering, panic-stricken minute before I remember what I am and turn to my animal friends.

That’s what they feel like—my various shapes are me, but not me at the same time. I’m still Wren inside a furry skin, but I’m also channeling primal energy unique to each kin form I welcome in.

Tonight, I call on my mama bear, my newest and most powerful land bound shape. She’ll keep me safe as I run through the woods in the dark. She’ll charge fast and furious into camp and have Kite and the others on their feet in seconds, ready to rush back to Creedence.

I reach down inside me with invisible hands, digging psychic fingers into the thick fur of my bear and drawing her close, swirling her around me like a cloak as I send out a silent thank you for coming to me, for helping me be something more than a girl alone.

The increasingly familiar twist-pull-pop starts in my stomach and ripples outward, transforming human skin into tooth and claw. My feet leave the ground bare and vulnerable and touch down the next heartbeat thickly padded and ready to rumble.

With a roar of warning that one of our own is in trouble, I gallop through the woods toward the smell of burning wood. By the time I reach the cabin, Luke is bursting through the door, shrugging on a sweatshirt as he moves, and the others are crashing through the woods toward me. Kite is already a big, burly, take-no-prisoners bear. Dust and Sierra are not far behind, both carrying flashlights and moving fast in human form.

I jerk my head and do a one-eighty, hurrying back the way I came.

I’ve only been gone five, maybe six minutes, but by the time I get back to the clearing, Creedence is so pale he practically glows in the darkness, and his heart beats so slowly a panicked moan rips from my chest, echoing through the night.

“Give me room.” Dust falls to his knees beside Creedence, bringing his fingers to the other man’s throat. “What happened?”

I tense, every muscle in my massive head straining as I try to reach out to Dust telepathically, the way he’s been teaching me to do, but I can’t find the link to my human voice. I’m too scared for Creedence, too panicked that I’ve done something terrible I can’t take back.

If I’m the death of him, I will never forgive myself.

After another beat, I give up and reach for the strings tying me to my bear. I pull hard—too hard, sending myself into the shift so fast I land in my human skin with a scream and a wave of nausea so intense I fall to my hands and knees in the dirt, fighting to keep my dinner in my belly as I gasp, “We were together and—”

“Together how?” Dust demands. “Having sex?”

I shake my head. “No. Not yet. He was kissing me, and then he said it felt like his head was exploding.

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