She looks at me, her eyes flashing with a power I don’t yet understand, and my heart fills with the need to protect her from the wolves sniffing around.They are smart and strong and usually I enjoy that fact but right now, I want to get her away and keep her safe from their inquisition.
Chapter Five
Maisey
The betas’ eyes are practically canine despite being in their human bodies.Sharp and intelligent and all-seeing.
But I see them too.And this situation as it unfolds before me.Rival clans are being forced to connect.This world of shifters is going to have to work together in order for them all to survive.
Val tosses a piece of raw meat into the air and catches it, then chews it open-mouthed as he stares at me.His tongue is pink, the meat is bloody, and suddenly a heat rises up my chest and throat.My skin prickles as though a thousand needles are prodding me and my stomach rolls.
“Maisey.”
Elias’s face blurs and I reach for him.
“What is it?”
“I ...I...”I close my eyes.“There is...”A sudden image confronts me.It’s the Museum of Natural History, a back delivery entrance.There is a woman there, terrified, she’s pressing against a wall and looking around as though trapped and searching for escape.I don’t see what’s scaring her but I feel it, strong and menacing and with a taste for blood.
I flick open my eyes.
“Tell me.”Elias grips my shoulder.“What is it?”
“You have to get to the Museum of Natural History, one of them is there ...an infected shifter, I’m sure of it, and he’s about to attack a woman.”
“How can you possibly know?”Fraser asks.
“I don’t for definite.But this kind of thing has happened to me in the past.A place pops into my head and I know there’s something bad happening there.Usually I see it on the news after the event, but this time I’m trusting my instincts and speaking up.”
Fraser stands, his expression grim.“I trust your instincts.”He makes a low growling sound.“Everyone except Elias, with me, now.”
He drags off his t-shirt then springs onto the table, his body elongating and his pants shredding.His skin becomes thick black fur and the shape of his face switches to that of a long-featured wolf with snarling teeth.
In a flurry the other shifters in the room burst upward and become their wolf selves.I gasp as the shockwave of magical energy hits me full force.
Elias is close, his arm is around me, and I cling to his leg as the huge animals rush from the room, chairs falling and candles flickering.The door slams behind them.
