Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
I take off, not even looking back at the guys, knowing they will follow without question. I shift and we run fast through the woods. Everything seems brighter, all the colors are enhanced now, the smells are sharper.
***”Wow! I can smell each rabbit and squirrel differently.”*** Dakota laughs in my head.
***”Don’t get distracted, you can make friends with the tiny fluff balls later.”*** Oliver laughs at him.
****I was actually thinking tracking is going to be so much more precise. I’ll have to test it with the pups when they get back. They will never win at hide and seek again. Even with all of the tricks Smalls teaches them.”***
We all laugh.
***” Of course you’re thinking about how to beat children at a game.’ .**** Cam digs at him too.
***”Hey, don’t knock it, they are ruthless.”***
***”I can see the packhouse!”*** I don’t know why that makes me emotional, but even in my wolf form I can feel the moisture build behind my eyes.
We are finally running down our street and up to the front lawn of the packhouse shift without thinking twice. I have never been so excited to see a building before. I turn to look at my guys and notice they are all still in wolf form. They are all exactly the same size, but now they all have a black triangular patch on their chest that is the same color as my wolf.
***”What’s up guys? Shift. Let’s go inside and figure out what’s happening.”***
***”Bitty, we haven’t learned the ‘shift with clothes on’ thing and none of us is in a position to be in our human form naked in front of you.”
***”Wha….Ohhhhh.”***
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****I mean unless you want us to drag you upstairs and finish this.”
Dakota adds in a sultry voice I don’t think I’ve ever heard him use before. “I just want the options out there.**** ***”You’re an idiot. Love, will you go get us shorts please.”***
I laugh, they are going to keep me on my toes, that’s for sure. “I’ll be right back.”
I don’t have to go far, we keep extra clothes all over the place for quick changes like this. Once they have shifted and are properly covered we walk to the back yard where all of our friends are sitting around the fire. Once Sierra catches sight of us it’s pandemonium. Everyone jumps up giving us hugs and back slaps. Lots of conversations that I can’t quite follow are going on. We finally walk over to join them at the fire so we can all actually catch up.
“So what actually happened? One minute you were all marking each other, which was so hot by the way.”
Sierra fans herself. “Then you were surrounded by that swirl of wind and we were all kind of thrown back on our asses and it disappeared with you in it.
“We didn’t move. Or at least I don’t think we moved.”
Cam says sitting down on a long bench and pullin me onto his lap. I will probably never sit in my own chair ever again.
“Yeah, nothing changed for us, we were just trapped in the funnel.”
Dakota adds sitting next to us.
“We had a few things to figure out before the magic that was trapping us would let us go. How long were we actually in there? Lil said ‘weeks.’ How many exactly? And what’s been going on since we went in.”
Oliver asks, sitting on my other side.
“Shorty’s birthday is in three days.”
Mateo looks at all of us.
I gasp and look at my guys. We’ve been in there for almost a month. What the hell? “It felt like hours to us. That’s crazy.”
“That explains why I’m starving now.”
Dakota laughs at me, then stands. “You want anything Sweetness?” He asks, grazing my cheek with the back of his knuckles.
“Umm, Yes, please.”
“That’s so weird to watch.”
I look over to Nathaniel, my confusion is probably clear on my face. “You’re letting someone do something for you and not fighting them. It’s just weird.”
All of our friends laugh and I join in, he’s not wrong.
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