Chapter 46
After Ignatius anil 1 had finally worn ourselves out and spent the night holed up in our house in the
Ruta had been excited to hear that I had managed a hall shift so quickly although she warned me to be
careful with it. She also rained holy hellfire down on Ignatius’s head when she found out about how he
had almost injured me in his heat.
Ignatius offered to help me attempt my first ever full shift and was eager to take him up on that offer.
We left the house and instead of beashing into the forest, Ignatius guided me towards the c lits that
looked down over the sea.
“I’ll be easter out in the open,” he exined. “Fewer trees to crash into. Just don’t go falling off the
cliffs”
“Not funny,” I mumbled, looming down over the edge at the crashing waves and pointed rocks below. “I
don’t even know if I’m going to be able to do it again. Last time had adrenaline and fear on my side.”
“You’ll be fine,” Iguatus insisted and he took both my hands in his and squeezed. “This is so exciting. I
can’t wait to see what your wall looks like. Fini sure she’s beautiful”
“What if I get stuck hallway?” Now that
Ignatius stepped back to give me room. Dorothy that can’t really happen. I just told you that so you
would stop hounding me about it before you were ready.”
was finally going to attempt a full shift, I was suddenly a nervous wreck
I gave him my best resting b tch face and my drawn-out silence hade my irritation apparent.
Ignatiusughed and then held his hands up. “Okay, okay. I’m sorry about that one. But it’s time.
Remember what Rita taught you.” He seemed more excited about the process than I was. I wondered
how long he had been waiting to run through the woods with my wolf form by his side,
“I’m scared,” I whined, wringing my wrists and dancing on my toes. “What if I can’t do it again?”
“It’s like riding a bike, Ignatius brushed my worries aside. It takes a leap of courage and suddenly
you’re a natural at it.”
I closed my eyes, focusing on slowing down my breath.
“Fine. But you’re not allowed tough at me if I get it wrong.
I stripped down to my underwear and shivered when the breeze whispered across my bare skin.
Ignatius told me that most shifters ended up tearing their clothes if they didn’t change out of them first
and I wasn’t ready to lose any of my new expensive outfits.
“Noughing. I promise.”
Ignatius crossed his finger over his chest in an X and smiled at me.
“This is going to be great.”
I peaked at him through one eye and then tried my best to focus. I heaved in a deep breath and
listened to the world around
I could hear the waves throwing themselves against the jagged rocks at the foot of the cliffs we stood
on. I heard the wind swish through the tall grass and felt tendrils of it brush my ankles as the green
des swayed in the breeze.
I could smell Ignatius’s scent, blending so well with that of the sea air that was carried up the cliffs with
the spray of seafoam Fresh air, sunshine, and the smell of salt in the breeze. It was as peaceful as it
could possibly get
I focused on all of these things I could sense around me, allowing myself to sink into my own mind
while Renee rose to the
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“Don’t be scared. Dorothy her soice was soothing and singsongas I stepped back to allow her to take
the helm “You’re ready
“I don’t feel ready.”
Nob*dy does on their first time. You’re going to be fine”
I let myself float in the calming energy that flooded my mind. After a few moments. I heard Ignatius’s
breath hitch and I felt my b*dy beginning to change.
Fur broke through my skin once again, only this time I was more conscious of the ufortable
sensation of it rippling across my skin.
I felt my ws lengthening and sharpening and my canine teeth began to poke through between my
lips. I kept my eyes scrunched tightly shut, concentrating on keeping it together.
“You’re doing great. Dorothy Renee assured me. I couldn’t answer her. There was a sharp pain
growing in my limbs as every appendage began to stretch and reshape.
It started with my fingers, an achingpression that send pain shooting up my arm. It spread across
my b*dy. It felt like the growing pains I got in my short legs as a child when I had finally hit my very tiny
growth spurt
Suddenly I was sweating, I felt it drip down my forehead as I fought to stay on my feet. I was told the
first shift was going to be painful. I hadn’t anticipated just how much it was going to hurt though
Some shifters began practicing this kind of thing from the age of twelve, prepping their b*dy and their
mind early so that by the time their full shin came they would be ready for it
I didn’t have the luxury of practicing from a young age. I didn’t have anyone to exin it to me, let alone
teach me up until I met Ignatius
There were a reason packs were so tightly knit. They encouraged each other and prepared each other
for the tumultuous life of a shifter from a young age.
I finally understood the necessity of a pack. Of a family. I cried out in agony when a bolt of pain cut like
a knife through my b*dy and my knees buckled underneath me.
Ignatius rushed to my side, concern in his voice. “Dorothy! You’re going to be fine. It’s okay. Just try to
breathe through the pain. You’re almost there.
“I’m shifting, not giving birth,” I whined, not meaning for it to sound as harsh as it did. Ignatius didn’t
seem to mind though and heughed.
“I’m sorry. Ignore me. I just want to help you get through this”
“Then tell me I’m not allowed to die and that I’m going to get the best reward if I manage this process
without screaming”
I groaned again when another wave of pain shot through me. I felt my bones stretching, some of them
pressing together. They crunched and popped and grated over one another as my b*dy rearranged
itself from the inside out.
This was why shifters prepared for this earlier. This was why I needed the training. My b*dy wasn’t
young and malleable. anymore. My bones were breaking and regrowing for the first time – not counting
the fractured ribs udia and Lana had delivered to me the year before.
Ignatius’s voice was stern
“You are not allowed to die. And if you get through this without being too loud I promise I will run you a
bath and treat you like a proper princess for the rest of the night. Is that what you wanted to hear?”
“Yes,” I moaned. “That’s better. Less concerned mate and more demanding Alpha.”
I could hear the smug smile in his voice without having to open my eyes. “Well good. Also, you’re
almost there. Your fur is
white.”
“What?” I opened my eyes and fell forwards, crying out as my broken bones reset themselves.
Suddenly my cry was a howl and I lifted my now fully formed head to the sky.
“Well done, Dorothy Renee’s voice in my head was excited and I could hear the pride in her words.
“You did wonderfully.”
“Oh my go d. Ignatius’s voice held a tint of awe. “You’re beautiful
With that. Ignatius shifted alongside me – much quicker and obviously less painfully than I had. Ignatius
howled his excitement and I couldn’t help but join in. Our wolves’ voices merged together and echoed
over the cliffs, scaring the gulls that were circling above us.
I looked down at my own front paws in the tall grass. Clean white fur. I was ecstatic. My b*dy was
ovee with the innate desire to run full speed along the cliffs. Ignatius was bristling with excitement
next to me and his voice in my head was loud. and reckless.
“Time to test out your new form. Have you ever raced anyone Dorothy?”
Tve been outrunning my bullies all my life. You’re on.” Before I could even finish, Ignatius had taken off
running ahead of me and 1 hurried to catch up “Cheater. That’s not fair.”
We took off across the edge of the cliff, I chased down my mate in the form I had longed for for so long.
Rence was singing in my chest, ted as our legs stretched and bent as we ran faster and faster.
Helt more powerful than ever before, so sure of my b*dy and every step that I took. We picked up
speed and managed to keep pace right behind Ignatius who looked back with his tongue lolling out of
his mouth.
1ughed internally at the sight of him but I felt the exact same reckless joy that I knew he was feeling
in his chest. I felt free and unstoppable. I felt alive.
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They didn’t know what wasing for them. How could they? They were so caught up in their own st
upid little world they weren’t even aware of the danger lurking right beside them in the trees.
I had masked my scent well. I kept to the shadows. They didn’t suspect a thing as they strode past me
towards the cliffs. Even Ignatius, with his Alpha abilities, was unable to detect me now. I had gone
beyond the limitations of a mere Beta. I was something greater. Something entirely new. And I was
patient.
I could have stepped out
right then and there, snapped Dorothy’s pretty little neck, and knocked my old friend off the cliffs how I
yearend to see his b*dy dashed on the rocks below, painting the cove red.
I wanted to tear them apart. But that wouldn’t be enough. They didn’t deserve a quick death. They
deserved to endure the same suffering that they had put me through. It wasn’t enough to tear them
limb from limb.
I wanted to take everything that they loved. I would take their pack and their people. I would take their
home and their way of life. I would take them from each other. And only then, when they had nothing
left-only then would I allow them the relief of death. This was my design. This was my revenge.
I watched in silent disgust from my position in the forest. I saw Dorothy, my old nate. My true mate. I
watched her shift into her wolf form for the first time. She was a stark shock of pure white fur and blue
eyes that I could see even from a distance.
She was a beauty to behold. I wanted to see her clean white coat stained with blood. I crossed the
damp forest floor. I wanted to be closer I wanted to taste her went. I wanted to indulge.
They took off running across the cliffs, Dorothy was faster than had expected. My weak, frail mate was
full of surprises. So was I They could never expect what was toe. It had already begun. My n
was already in motion.
I had more people on my side than they were aware of. I had plenty of tricks up my sleeve, and now I
had spies on the
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inside and a new power that would tear them down before they could blink.
My b*dy was powerful, my senses refined. My skin was cold to the touch – it spoke of death and decay.
But I had never felt more alive. It was a worthy sacrifice in exchange for all of this power. For the
chance of revenge.
I could not have been happier to have stumbled onto Tally territory all those weeks ago. I had been lost,
murderous. I had carried my dead lover around like a gruesome puppet, talking to Mavis like she was
still alive.
All she could do was stare back at me with hollow, empty eyes. Her mouth was frozen in a perpetual
soundless scream. I told her how beautiful she was. How she shouldn’t have done what she did to me.
I had to make her understand that she had wronged me. I would never get an apology though. Corpses
can’t talk. That was the first thing the Tally leader had said to me when she found me in the woods,
whispering to Mavis
I had been broken and deranged, without a purpose. She had been unafraid, even when I loomed over
her, ready to maul
her on sight.
“Corpses can’t talk. What are you doing on my turf, mutt?”
A thin, spindly woman with long hair. An innocent victim lost in the woods was what I thought when I
firstid eyes on her But she was more than that. She showed me the great power that she possessed
and I had been captivated immediately
I had felt her own rage and saw the pain in her eyes that reflected my own. She had been wronged by
the world, da mned her pack and tormented by those she had loved. I saw her insatiable lust for
vengeance and it inspired me. She led me to her soldiers.
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She had offered me a way out, a solution to all of my problems. She gave me a purpose and great
powers. And then she gave
mean army.
Our ns were set in motion soon after that, and I was stronger than ever. The voices of Mavis and my
father were harder to hear now.
That da mned ticking clock was background noise to me, nothing more than the irritating buzz of a fly-
easily ignored except in the short moments before I slipped off to sleep. I barely needed sleep thanks
to the Tally leader. She had gifted me with a b*dy that could thrive on fury and resolve alone.
I didn’t need to eat either, but my jaw itched totch on to warm flesh. I ached to taste fresh blood on
my tongue. Dorothy’s Joyous howl had me snapping my eyes up. My traitor mate and her dog were
heading back my way
I watched them roll about in the tall grass and yfully snap at each other like they weren’t inches
away from death. I reveled in the power I had over them. A power they weren’t even aware of
Julianna growled in my chest, their lust for blood pushing me to take an unintentional step forwards. I
was almost in sight of the two foolish lovers.
“Fools, the both of them,” Julianna hissed.
“Enough. We can’t be seen yet.”
“We should just cut them down now.”
“No, I hissed, although the idea was so tempting. I took another step forward. Something about
watching my mate from the shadows was invigorating. Something about the churning anger in my
chest made my c ock twitch.
it a fool
“They aren’t worthy to be called fools. Does one pass an ant and take the time to call it a fool?”
I couldn’t help myself, gliding my hand up and down my own member, watching my mate carry on
gleefully. Completely oblivious to my pe rv ersion
It was my grudge to hold, my fury to fetishize. I fought to keep the moans from escaping me as I felt my
throbbing appendage gearing to release,
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Another step forwards and atwig snapped under my weight. Dorothy sat bolt upright in the grass and
turned her head to scan the forest. Her senses were better than I had anticipated,
I froze on the spot, stiff c ock in hand, confident that I was hidden, After a few more minutes of waiting.
Dorothy turned away and continued her grooming of the wolf at her side.
“Not yet,” I said to Julianna, stepping back into the shadows and hastening away through the trees.
“Not yet.”
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