Untamed Fate (Magic Side: Wolf Bound 2)

dropped the clothes. Your turn, she said, utterly exhausted.

Never had she been so willing to shift back to human form. I was both

shocked and saddened. That fight had taken a little of the fire out of her.

Let's do this. Quickly, this time, I told her, worried that it might not work

without Jaxson here. But what choice did we have?

My wolf lowered herself to the ground, and then our body strained as the

shift took hold. I gritted my teeth as I jerked and bent, and the horrors of the

shift began. I had to stifle a scream as I felt the ligaments and muscles in my

legs and arms tearing, and the wounds in my skin reopened.

Pain blotted out my thoughts. Why wasn’t it over? The shift to wolf form

had been fast.

But the agony only increased. We were stuck between forms. Dread

coiled in my chest.

We need Jaxson, my wolf snarled in pain.

Like hell we do! Jaxson wasn't in control of our body.

I tried to calm my mind so I could let the shift take me. My wolf seemed

to sense my cue and settled, and we both embraced the pain that worked

through our body.

This time, when our joints popped and sinews stretched, the agony eased

until it was gone.

Panting, I finally opened my eyes and stared up at the tre

es. The pine

branches swayed in the ocean wind.

“We did it,” I whispered and rolled onto my hands and knees.

I was exhausted and achy, and pangs of hunger knotted my stomach. I

glanced down at the wound on my bare thigh where Kahanov had sliced me

with the Soul Knife. The skin was red and inflamed, but the bleeding had

stopped. Maybe my wolf's healing power was kicking in.

“Well, we could have gotten off worse,” I muttered as I inspected my

naked body.