Total pages in book: 202
Estimated words: 193561 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 968(@200wpm)___ 774(@250wpm)___ 645(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 193561 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 968(@200wpm)___ 774(@250wpm)___ 645(@300wpm)
When Stacy spoke up for Cat stating that Cat is Tyson Savage’s mother and then expressed her gratitude to Cat for helping the pack even after what she did to Ty on their alpha’s orders. Stacy looked around at the group and drove the point home that Cat still came to help and has saved lives already. This seemed to make a difference.
Catrina Savage is a kind, gentle, maternal woman that puts everyone who meets her at ease, but I know for a fact that Stacy advising she’s Ty’s mom made a big difference. After Cat spoke up for Mitch, we got our four volunteers. One of those, Patsy, the lady Stacy sang to last night.
Mitch is monitoring them all for the next few hours and then he’ll have them try shifting a second time to see if they can do so on their own or if they’ll require an additional dose of the drug. He’s also explained to everybody that because the medication is still experimental, he’ll be documenting patients’ reaction to it for medical research.
Because I’d realized I might be persuading people unintentionally when we had one hundred per cent of the pack take Dani’s healing elixir, I didn’t say a word when Mitch began his speech about the experimental drug that could help reverse that herb’s shift-blocking.
Stacy wasn’t here for the elixir as she was visiting with Addy, but Dani offered her a dose when we got back to the mess hall after the locator spells. Stacy asked if it’s safe if she might be pregnant and Dani smiled brightly at her and promised that it is before looking at me and beaming even more before whispering about being ecstatic to hear the next generation of our coven is brewing and assuring me the firstborn Young witch of the next generation is absolutely safe in the cauldron.
My wife laughed at her womb being referred to as a cauldron.
43
Stacy
Not only are all of the sick doing better – some a little and some a lot, but everyone in the pack also actually looks better, too. Dani Young’s elixir must have done some good. I asked her to make sure Addy gets some and she told me Brody had already requested the same.
My chat with Addy earlier was short and I’m not sure how effective it was. It was short because Brody got antsy with Jase being close by, waiting for me. Apparently being near Grey didn’t bother him but Jase being an unmated alpha was a different story.
We only got a few minutes before Jase rapped on the window and called my name, apologizing for cutting things short but asking me to hurry before Brody decided to kick his ass. Jase made light of it, but I could tell he was injecting levity to try to break the tension for everyone.
I don’t think my words helped much for the moment, but hopefully the things I’ve said will sink in over the coming days. She’s understandably grief-stricken about Aunt Shea, she’s broken after what she and the other girls endured in a brothel disguised as a massage parlor, and she’s beyond frightened of Brody, immensely unhappy about being segregated from everyone.
She’s got bloodshot eyes, she looks like she hasn’t slept, and when I hugged her she shook like a leaf.
After asking her if she wanted to talk about the brothel and getting a very firm no, I told her how wonderful life is being mated to an alpha from Arcana Falls. I told her how beautiful their village is. I told her how I just yesterday hoped she would somehow, someway be identified by one of the Arcana Falls alphas, and the look of accusation on her face – as if I’m responsible for this happening to her – it threw me off.
She looked very skeptical when I told her how incredible sex is when you’re having it with your fated mate. She’s on emotional and information overload in addition to dealing with the reality of life changing for all of us. I tried to explain what I knew of the alpha’s urges and issues between the time of identifying their mate and claiming them and backed off when she got terror-stricken. I reiterated how good Grey is to me, how Brody seems like a really good guy, how Grey speaks very highly of him.
I mentioned he wanted to take on running this pack and this was news to her, so I also told her about Malachi being in Arcana Falls after giving her a full update of what I knew of the health condition of pack members.
And now, after witnessing the difference in several of our people after shifting, I suggested to Grey and got the thumbs up to suggest to the non-ill members of the pack that we all shift all at once outside the gates in the forest.