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Burning anger again flared inside me, so much so that I barely registered the endearment he’d just called me, because my wolf was now growling at me, snarling even. Her power was rising as she lunged toward Kaillen and his wolf. She wanted her mate, and I was standing in the way.
And that final leap of hers snapped any control I had. Before I knew what was happening, an explosion of magic overwhelmed me, and then I was a wolf on all fours, leaping onto Kaillen.
He caught my wolf just as she landed on his chest, and in another blink and swirl of power, Kaillen shifted too.
Since my consciousness was now inside my wolf, I railed and fought, as I tried to figure out how to shift back to a human. But I had no clue. All I could do was beg and plead with her, but my wolf snarled and pushed me back more, her wolfy mate completely bewitching her.
I sensed Kaillen’s wolf’s happiness. He was just as eager to be with my wolf as she was to be with him. For the two of them, it was very simple. He wanted her. She wanted him. End of story. Neither of them had the complex thought patterns that humans did. She didn’t give a damn that their bond was decided by the gods and magic, and not by her own i
I pushed more, trying desperately to break free, to be me again.
But she wouldn’t back down.
Damn you! I wailed at her, because this wasn’t fair. So much of my life was slipping out of my control, and now, I no longer even had control of my own body. It’d been bad enough to deal with my awakening power while trying to learn how to understand it, all while Jakub was hunting me, but now this? Now I had another being inside me who could override my wishes and shift as she chose. Not cool at all.
I curled up inside myself as my wolf and Kaillen’s frolicked through the woods.
A sob shook my chest because none of this was okay. But I had no idea how to make it right.