Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 45266 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 226(@200wpm)___ 181(@250wpm)___ 151(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45266 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 226(@200wpm)___ 181(@250wpm)___ 151(@300wpm)
“Daddy, no. I need to—”
He cut her off. “I know, Baby girl. I understand. You’ll go with Daddy, though.” He opened the front door and stepped onto the porch.
Molly squirmed in his arms, a sense of urgency consuming her.
The moment he set her down in the clearing, she shifted. She didn’t dare move. Her Daddy would put her in a two-day timeout if she didn’t stay where he could see her. It didn’t matter, though. She didn’t need to wander off. She’d only needed to get outside so she could hear better.
Molly was aware of Daddy standing very close to her, but she closed her eyes and tipped her ear toward the voices. She recognized one of the voices as belonging to the nicer bear shifter. The other voice wasn’t one she’d heard before, but she quickly determined it belonged to another bear shifter.
She breathed a bit easier when she realized the two of them were both friendly.
“You say the wolves are all at Felix’s house?”
“Yes. I overheard Drow telling Firat. Apparently the two of them have been scouting the wolves’ movements. I swear one of these days the wolves are going to stop trusting us if those two idiots don’t stop fucking terrorizing them.”
“We need to put a stop to their idiocy once and for all.”
“Do you think the council would hear our case and take action if we requested an audience?”
“I don’t know, but we have to try. We can’t keep tracking those two assholes and running to warn the wolves. One of these days, Drow and Firat are going to evade us and rain terror down on a peaceful pack of wolves who do not deserve their wrath.”
“I’m not sure putting an end to Drow and Firat will do any good. They have amassed a following. Someone else will just take up their cause.”
“Then the council needs to address that problem, too. They also need to specifically assign someone of our own to keep tabs on those idiots.”
“Should we volunteer?”
“Probably.”
Molly tipped her head closer. Her ears were high, giving her the ability to hear every syllable. Something was odd about what she was hearing, though. It was strange. Muffled. She couldn’t put her finger on it. And the speakers sounded like they were winded, as if they were running while they chatted. Why would they be running?
Movement to Molly’s right caused her to glance over as two wolves joined her. If she hadn’t been warned about Khloe’s size, she would have probably stumbled backward and fallen. Instead, she forced herself not to react. She nodded toward Khloe to acknowledge her.
The other wolf would be Olivia. She wandered around until she was facing Molly.
Damon and Felix joined in human form.
Felix spoke. “They won’t be here for another fifteen minutes. Molly, can you shift back so Olivia can see your human before she shifts?”
Molly glanced at her Daddy who nodded. She tipped her head one more time to make sure the two bears weren’t speaking again, and then she shifted.
When she once again stood in human form, so did Khloe. Olivia continued to stare at Molly for several more seconds before joining the other two in her human skin.
Molly felt like she belonged to an odd girls’ club. It was invigorating to be part of something bigger than her. After a lifetime of hiding in the corners, her face buried in books, trying to avoid anyone noticing her, she suddenly felt important.
She had so many questions. She asked the most pressing one first. “How do you know how much time we have until they get here?” she asked Khloe.
Khloe shrugged. “I don’t know. I just do. I can’t always tell exactly, but they’re moving, so I can sort of judge.”
Felix stood behind her, his hands on her shoulders. Molly couldn’t blame him. If she collapsed like she had in the closet every time she had a vision, that would have to scare Felix to death. Molly was surprised he didn’t insist she remain on all fours all the time. And then she thought back on what she’d seen of Khloe so far.
The corners of everything in her room were padded. She’d held Khloe’s hand on their way to her playroom. Also, Khloe had been the first to sit when they’d arrived, and she’d done so in the very center. She’d crawled over to the closet when they’d decided to hide, and she’d positioned herself between Molly and Olivia once they were inside. It would seem she did have a dozen precautions in place just in case she had a vision.
Molly noticed Olivia had a good sense of where the other two were standing, because she seemed to look back and forth between them as they spoke. If someone didn’t know she was blind, they would probably never figure it out.