Total pages in book: 47
Estimated words: 44044 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 220(@200wpm)___ 176(@250wpm)___ 147(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 44044 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 220(@200wpm)___ 176(@250wpm)___ 147(@300wpm)
At the sound of voices in the hallway, Jezebel glanced over her shoulder and tugged on Sienna’s hand. “Hurry.”
The two of them rushed to the window, unlocked it, and pushed it open.
“Can you shift on your way through the opening? If you can, you’ll land easily on your four paws. Head east. That’s all I know. Everyone is in the house now. The Alphas will not see you leaving. I’ll stay in here until someone opens the door.”
Sienna gave her new friend a brief hug. There was no time to waste. “Thank you.” She knew Jezebel was also going to get the spanking of a lifetime, but it couldn’t be helped.
Sienna stepped back a few feet, took a deep breath, and rushed toward the window. She’d never attempted anything like this, so it scared her to death, but somehow, she managed to shift in the air and landed on all four paws just as Jezebel had suggested.
Without glancing back, she took off running as hard as she could toward the east. It seemed like a miracle that she’d gotten away. There must have been a tremendous amount of commotion in the house for no one to notice her or sense her leaving, especially Jayce.
Of course there would be pandemonium in the house. Nineteen people were crammed in the small space. The seven women were probably talking over one another to tell the Alphas what all they’d witnessed during the bizarre group vision in the clearing.
Sienna ran harder, knowing she couldn’t thwart her mate for long. As soon as he realized she was missing, he would follow her scent and track her down. How was she going to get away with this?
As she ran, she glanced around, trying to absorb her surroundings. Somehow, she would need to find the spot from her vision, the one where she’d met with Surge.
It didn’t take long for her to know instinctively she’d arrived. She stopped running and shifted into human form, panting with exhaustion.
For long moments, she simply looked around, the hairs on the back of her neck standing on end. Waiting. Where was Surge?
And then he bounded into her space, coming to a stop so close that her dress billowed out around her from the movement of air.
She trembled, but she was not scared. She smiled at him. “You’re here.”
He shifted, surprising her. He had been in bear form in her visions. His expression was tight, his brows drawn together. “Is this what you predicted, Little one?”
She nodded.
“Why are we here?” he asked.
She frowned. “You don’t know? I thought it was your idea.”
“Not at all. I felt compelled to come. I was on my way toward Elias’s house with Thorn when some force told me to separate from him and send him alone.”
Sienna chewed on her lip and stared in the direction of the snow-capped mountain in the distance, the one Surge had indicated she needed to head toward.
Surge followed her line of sight.
Suddenly an enormous roar surrounded them. It was so loud that Surge grabbed her arm as if to ensure she didn’t fall. It was powerful enough to shake their foundation and cause them to feel unsteady on their feet.
“It’s a lion,” he murmured as the roar ended. “He wants to meet with you.”
Sienna smiled. “I know.” It seemed odd that Surge just now picked up on that.
Surge pointed in the direction of the mountain from her vision. “That way. You have to go to him. You have to go alone.” He scowled. “I don’t like it. Your mate is going to murder me.”
“He won’t. He’ll understand. It’s been foretold. It’s my destiny.”
“Will you be okay?”
“Yes. I’ll be back.”
“Why am I here?” Surge asked.
“So I can find my way back, and so Jayce can reunite with me. He will track me to this location and then lose my scent. He’ll be here soon. You’ll explain to him why I had to go. You two will wait for me to return here.”
She had no clue how she knew all of that. She simply did. It wasn’t even shocking any more. It had happened so many times since her mating ceremony. Had that just been yesterday?
Sienna clutched Surge’s forearm. “I must go now.” She didn’t wait for him to respond before she shifted and took off running. Her heart was racing from the exertion, and she was beyond unnerved from heading toward the unknown, but she felt no fear for her life or safety. The lion would not hurt her.
He was obviously a powerful being, the likes of which no wolf or bear shifter had encountered in so long that there was no lore to tell of it. If he’d meant any of them harm, he could have single-handedly slaughtered every wolf and bear in every valley and across the entire line of mountain ranges.