Untamed Fate (Magic Side: Wolf Bound 2)

I crossed a yard and paused, then slowly stepped over to the shadows in

the lee of a house. They were too black. Too deep. “Savannah? Are you

there?”

No response came, but I didn’t need one. I could hear her thundering

heartbeat and smell her fear.

“The thing is gone. You’re safe.” I stepped forward, but Savannah swept

out of the darkness, away from me and from her cousin. The shadows clung

to her, trailing her like a long black dress, moving softly in the glow of the

streetlights.

It was beautiful.

“I will never be safe.”

Her voice rang with anger, but I could tell it was covering for terror. I

sensed she wanted to run toward me, but she just kept moving away.

Casey came over and reached for her. “Hey, it’s going to be okay, Savy.”

She spun away. “No, it is not.”

He shrugged. “Look, the bug is dead, and we all lived. It’s nothing a belt

of whiskey can’t fix.”

“What do you know? Nothing,” she spat, maneuvering around us like

boxers in the ring. “Kahanov just invaded my dreams and made me sleepwalk

out here. Then he tried to feed me to a horror from the abyss. I am not

freaking okay, and I don’t think I’m ever going to sleep again.”

Shocked silence hung in the street.

He’d invaded her dreams?

That fucker. My body shook as I tried to repress my wolf, and my hands

and face ached as I held back the shift.

“Holy shit,” Casey murmured, eyes wide.

I wanted to go to Savannah, but I suspected the moment any of us took a

step forward, she would back away—she was on edge, a tiger against a wall.

Perhaps the others understood as well, because not one of us moved.

Finally, Savannah licked her lips. “Do any of you know what the hell that