Shadow Kissed (Magic Side: Wolf Bound 4) - Page 93

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Savannah

My mom slowed as she approached.

I was so overwhelmed, I could barely breathe.

She looked between us, a torrent of emotion surging in her eyes. You’re…alive.

A lump formed in my throat, and unable to articulate everything I wanted to say in wolf speech and gesture, I simply nodded.

She took a swift step forward and rubbed against me. Even though the sun still slightly shimmered through her form, I could feel her, just as much as I’d been able to feel Stephanie’s touch.

Joy flooded my body, and my heart began to sing. For a long time, we just nuzzled against each other, reunited after sixteen years apart.

I don’t know how long we stayed like that. There was so much unspoken, but we didn’t need to speak at all.

Finally, the ghost wolf alpha’s voice boomed in my mind. The sun sets. You must leave us now.

My mother stood back. You’ve come to take this one away from me.

A sudden dread began to rise in my chest. How could I do this to them? To myself? But I had to, and I hung my head. Yes.

Don’t leave,my mother pleaded. Run with us.

All the joy inside of me died. There was nothing I wanted more, but I couldn’t.

We have to go.

My mother rubbed against me. Come with me—your father will want to see you. I run with the pack, but I reside with him in the woods. I can take you there. The journey’s long, but his heart will soar to see you.

My heart wasn’t soaring. It was screaming toward the earth.

My parents. After all these years, this was my chance to reunite with them—to tell them about my life in Belmont and Magic Side, about Jaxson, about everything I’d become. To spend time with them—time I’d squandered when I was young.

I looked up at the ghost wolf alpha. Please, may I run with the pack? Just to see my father again.

Stay or go, I do not care,the alpha rumbled. The choice is yours. But it is permanent, and if you do not return to your world soon, that choice will be made for you.

The loremaster had warned me that the ghosts would try to keep me here. To seduce me into joining them, not out of spite, I knew, but out of love.

But I couldn’t stay, no matter how much I wanted it.

Tears welled in my eyes, and I buried my head in my mother’s fur. I need to return to Magic Side. Aunt Laurel and Uncle Pete, Casey, who you never knew, the pack—they’re all depending on me. I have a life there. A love there.

I nodded to Jaxson.

She inspected him with distraught eyes, then nuzzled me again, each movement pulling on my soul. I understand what you must do. Go—both of you—with my love.

I’m sorry,I cried.

I’m not,she said. I got to see you again for a moment, to know you’re well and have found love, that you’re doing great things in the world. One day, we will be reunited, my love. I’ll tell your father. He’ll be heartbroken with pride.

I could barely stand for my grief. Tell Dad I love him, that I think of him every time I sit in my car, that I’ll learn every spell he inscribed so that one day, I’ll understand what his magic was truly like. I love you both more than words can say. And one day, I promise, we’ll run together again.

The ghost wolf alpha growled from the ridgeline, and I could sense his growing anger. The pack is waiting. You have what you came for—now leave my lands.

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