Chapter 25
Jaxon held me until I had calmed down. I wasn’t sure how long that took but by the time I finally left
his embrace, Cressida was nowhere to be found and it was jut Kiara and the doctor. I felt spent and
it felt like all the energy had been leeched out of me and I was nothing but a walking shell of
myself.
My headache had returned although not in the same capacity as earlier and I felt weirdly nauseous.
I assumed it was because of how much I had cried. I turned to my daughter and opened my arms
for her and she wasted no time in leaping into my arms. I grunted from the force of her weight but I
still held her close.
“Are you okay?” she asked with a little sniffle and I couldn’t help but feel bad at how worried she
must have been to see me pass out like that.
“I am perfectly fine.” I assured her and then as if on cue my eyes met the doctor and she had an
expression on her face that had my–hackles rising. I pulled back from Kiara and brushed her hair
out of her face. “Why don’t you go wait for me in your room? I’ll be right there.”
She hesitated as if she wanted to say not but then she nodded and walked right out. Jaxon was
staring at me in concern and confusion but I ignored him. Once Kiara was out, I turned to the
doctor. She seemed to understand my silent cue because she cleared her throat and stood to her
feet.
“I noticed something when I was looking over you,” she began slowly as if she was unsure of what
to say. “I don’t even know how to exin it because I have never seen it before in my life but I think
you’re nesting because you’re about to shift.”
I was utterly confused because I had never heard the term nesting in my life and also because I
didn’t think it was possible for me to shift at twenty two. I had heard ofte shifters at eighteen but
nothing above that. Shiftingte was very dangerous and had the capacities to kill you. I turned to
Jaxon but he didn’t look as confused as I did. If anything, he looked a little terrified and I had a
feeling he knew what nesting was.
“What’s nesting?” I asked more to him than to the doctor and she knew that because she stayed
silent.
“It’s a lycan term,” he began slowly. “Typically when nesting, a female is pregnant and trying to find
a suitable ce to deliver. A ce that she feels warm and protected if that makes any sense. I’ve
never heard of a wolf nesting and much less when they want to shift. Pam, are you sure she’s
nesting?”
Pam- the doctor sighed. “That’s the only exnation I could find. I think internally she realizes that
shifting thiste could be hazardous and she’s trying to feel safe. I don’t really understand it either
but from the tests I ran, that’s what I saw Her blood pressure is going up and her temperature is sky
high. Her bones are brittle and they’re going to start breaking anytime soon.”
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I knew she wasn’t trying to scare me but the more she spoke, the more terrified I got. I wanted to
ask if there was a way to stop it. I wanted to remain wolf less. It was a better option than dying due
to shifting sote in life.
“Can it be stopped?” Jaxon asked voicing my fears and Pam gave him a sympathetic look and a
soft smile. “What can we do to make it easier for her?”
“The best you can do is wait it out. I’ll be here the entire time to offer medical assistance the best I
can but it is going to be painful and brutal to watch. My advice is that she is taken somewhere
spacious and warm and away from people. We don’t hope for anything bad to happen but we
always have to be prepared.”
Jaxon was quiet and immobile for a full minute and then as if a switch was flipped in him, he started
to move. He picked me up
up and I wanted to protest but I fell silent because I knew he was trying his best to do the right
thing.
He walked right out of the room and I could see Pam following closely behind us as he walked down
the stairs, and towards the basements. There were some guards at the entrance and they looked
shocked to see him carrying me.
“You’re dismissed,” he told them without missing a beat. “I don’t want anyone around here until I say
so. Is that clear?”
They answered immediately and dashed off as if someone lit a fire to their behind. Jaxon didn’t
even wait to see if his order was being followed, he just led me through the hall and then towards a
pair of double doors. They weren’t locked so he turned the knob with me still in his hands and my
mouth fell open when I took in the room
in front of me.
“It belonged to my mother,” he exined as we walked in. “This is where she hested when she was
pregnant.
with me.”
The room was almost asrge as the ball I had seen the other day. It had a massive bed that was
almost twice the size of a normal bed and the floor was covered in what looked like warm grey rugs.
There wererge teddy
bears around the room and flower pots lined the windows. It was obvious that someone took care of
the room because there was not a speck of dust to be seen.
On the drawers were rows and rows of pictures and I knew without a doubt that they were of
Jaxbn’s mother. As soon as he put me down, I walked over to one and I picked it up. She was truly
beautiful with pin straight ck
hair, a soft smile and warm brown eyes.
“She’s beautiful,” I said softly and I turned back to Jaxon. “How did she die?”
“She was murdend,” he offered no further exnation and I knew he didn’t want to talk about it so I
decided to
let the subject slide.
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As I walked around the room, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of attachment to it. I tried to fight it
because it was. his mother’s nest and I didn’t want to intrude but something about it felt right and I
couldn’t ce my finger on it. I don’t know if it was the smell of the flowers, or the warmness of the
room but it felt perfect.
I was about to say just as much when I felt a searing pain go through my spine. I let out a silent
scream and fell to the ground trying to rid myself of the pain. It felt like someone had taken a hot
iron and dropped it directly on my spine.
“I think it’s starting.” Pam said as she rushed over to me.
She ced a warm cloth on my forehead and I didn’t even have the time to think about where she
got it from, I just wanted the pain to end. It felt like an electric burn and like I was being repeatedly
run over by a truck and the worst part was that it wasn’t in one particr spot. It was at my back
and in my hands. It was all over my entire body and I just wanted it to stor
“Please,” I managed out, “Please, make it stop.”
I could feel Jaxon’s hands in mine as if he was trying to keep me anchored and I appreciated him
for it but thest thing I needed wasfort. I needed the pain to stop and if he couldn’t do that
then wanted him as far away from me as possible. I knew it was selfish but I couldn’t bring myself to
care.
“Why is this happening now?” I asked in the midst of my pain because I couldn’t understand what
suddenly triggered the need to shift after so many years of having a dormant wolf.
“The truth,” Pam began slowly. “When Jaxon marked you, he triggered your wolf. I’ve seen it
happen a few times with wolves who are mated to lycans. It triggers something in their wolf so it can
be an equal to their lycan counterpart. It’s worse for you because you have never shifted before.”
I let out a groan as another rush of pain hit me. “I’m going to die and it is all your fault.”
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“You can yell at me after you’ve shifted,” Jaxon mused as he pressed a ki*s to my forehead, “I just
need you to get through this.”
I was about to say something that rhymed with ‘ick‘ when another searing pain rushed through my
entire body. and it felt like all my bones were being simultaneously broken. I let out an ear splitting
scream and for a moment I wondered if those in the castle could hear me.
My ears rang and the pain seemed tost forever. I didn’t understand what was happening but Pam
did because she sighed and looked me square in the eye.
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“The shifting has officially begun.”