“No shit.Can I ask why she’s never shifted before now?”he asked.Starla wanted to bite him first, maybe second, after she bit the male who acted like she didn’t exist.
“Can they hear us in that state?”Aurora gestured toward the males in the room.
“What are you going to tell him, Aurora?”Starla asked her sister.
“He needs to know the truth, Biddy Bee.”
Savage shook his head.
Starla paced away as Aurora described the last day they’d seen their parents alive.She used the distraction to regain her composure.
“When I was Starla’s age, our parents discovered we were being hunted.They didn’t share with me who hunted us, just that we had to run and leave everything behind.Our father was a shifter, while our mother was a very powerful Fey.Together, they decided to suppress our shifter sides so that we could be part of the human world without the need to be part of a pack.I’ve never felt...that burning need to be part of the shifter society.My father said it was all-consuming and didn’t want my sister and me to feel compelled to follow the rules of his world.Our mother, on the other hand, didn’t have any such ties to another world.She didn’t have any other Fey family.After her mother died giving birth to her, she was brought up in foster care.Nobody wanted the weird child who had vivid dreams and believed in magic back then.Our mother learned through dreams how to wield her magic.She said she had met a fairy named Jenna who would one day save them.Goddess, if you were to see our mother, you’d have thought her the most beautiful being to have walked the Earth.Hearing her talk about Jenna, you’d swear the fairy was the true Goddess, though.”Aurora paused and took a shaky breath.
Starla moved to stand next to her.“She really was.You look a lot like her, Aurora.You have her hair and strength.”
“We were taught not to show any of our abilities for fear of being outcasts.On the day th...that our parents died, we were running.A storm appeared out of nowhere, and then a tree fell on our car.It was horrible, Savage.Starla and I barely escaped with our lives.”Aurora wiped at her tears.
“Aurora saved both of our lives.We’d have been swept away with our parents if not for her quick thinking and strength.”Starla squeezed her sister’s hand, needing to make sure Savage understood the female he claimed was a warrior.
“At the time, I was moving on instinct and an inner knowledge.Our parents hadn’t kept me completely in the dark.I got both of us out of the wreckage of the SUV, took what valuables I could from the luggage, and realized the forest across from us spoke to me.We must’ve been heading somewhere my mother knew, or at least a place she sensed was safe for all of us.Once we were inside the safety of the woods, the beating rain didn’t seem to touch us.Time became weird.I remember taking things from the suitcases, and then Starla and I went in search of a certain tree our mother had spoken about.”
Starla didn’t miss the fact her sister didn’t mention the tree was magical.While Aurora thought Starla had been too young to glean anything from the fantastic properties, she clearly remembered things no child of seven should
“Is that how you got us away from the forest and set up across the country?”Starla asked.
Aurora laughed.“No.It didn’t give me a magical portal that whisked us across state lines.That would’ve been amazing.The magic provided me, or rather us, with the ability to move without being traced.The suppression spell might seem harsh, but my dad said that when females without a pack come of age, it could be extremely dangerous not only for us but also for those in our lives.I chose to continue suppressing my wolf and Starla’s.”
“Aurora, I hate to tell you this, but my wolf is not liking the whole suppression thing.”
Before Aurora could do or say anything, the air in front of them shimmered.Savage moved beside her, placing one large arm in front of her as if he prepared to sweep her behind him.
From one moment to the next, the space in front of them went from empty to filled with a tiny female and two identical glowering males standing next to her—one on her left and one on her right.
Starla’s gaze flew back to the blonde woman sandwiched between the males.Her long hair flowed down her back, but it was her sparkling purple eyes that shocked Starla.She’d seen them in her dreams.
“Who are you?”Aurora asked.
“Hello, family.I am Jennaveve.These two angry-looking males are my other halves.Damien and Lucas, can you two please pretend not to be so...stern?”
