The Shift

LORELAI

I ran, my paws hitting the soft earth of the forest. It was a little reckless to be leaving the city, considering everything that was happening, but I couldn’t bring myself to turn around.

Running in wolf form was my new favorite thing to do; it was exhilarating.

The wind was like a caress through my fur. The power in my legs was addictive, and I was so damn fast.

I was smaller than the other wolves, but I didn’t care. My eyes were purple, not red, too.

My coat was a lush gray with light and dark streaks of the shade.

And through my wolf, I felt immense power.

The spell had worked.

I was a true luna now—a true mix of races. My wolf, human, and witch parts were blending seamlessly.

It made me grin, my tongue lolling out of my snout as I ran.

Kai and Brax ran with me, keeping up. They were faster than me while I got used to running as a wolf, but I was still fast—faster than I had ever been anyway.

I ran around trees, the smell of moss and pine pulling in with every breath.

And the smell of my mates.

That was so much clearer. It wasn’t a distinct describable scent; rather, it was something that made me crave them even more than I already did.

But not in just the sexual way I usually had burning in me. No, this was an all-encompassing craving.

I craved their company, their voices, their bodies, and their link.

I wanted it all at all times.

I thought I had wanted it before, and I had, but this was different. It was a soul-deep need, an ache that wasn’t ignorable until I had them close.

I felt everything within them so much more. I felt their emotions and desires as if they were my own, but it wasn’t a link thing; it was the intuition in me and my wolf. Like it sensed any shift in them.

And it urged me to feel the same or fix the feeling.

I smirked over at Brax, then at Kai, as they flanked me, pushing harder into the forest. I was circling the city, getting the scents for all the wolves, the territory, the paths the vamps lingered on.

They were there, in the distance, and their stink wafted through the heavy wind, making me grimace.

My heart still ached, still felt the crushing pain of losing Tabby, but it also gave me the need to rip the vampires to shreds.

They had taken too much.

I wasn’t going to let them take anything else. Not when I could feel the power to stop them burning through my veins.

Even as a wolf, my magic and shadows were there, moving together, wanting to do whatever I needed them to.

It was a fierce loyalty, one that wasn’t as prominent before. Now that the magic was whole again, I felt it.

I wanted to use it.

And I would, on the vampires.

And on the witches if I had to.

Derik was arranging things for Tabby’s funeral, back to being the Derik I knew—the one who put his responsibilities before himself.

I felt his pain as raw as the others’, but we all hid it. No, we didn’t hide it; we used it.

We let it feed our need for revenge.

Cain was not there yet. He hadn’t left his room with Beenie since it had happened. He had closed off our access to him through all links and was not answering the door.

So we gave him his space.

It’s not like I could make it better or hurt less. The only thing I could do was promise that she didn’t die for nothing. The power that flowed in my veins because she sacrificed herself was potent and would help us win the war against the vampires.

~“I don’t think he’s mad at the vampires, Spitfire,”~ Brax said in the mating link.

~“The witches are who his issue is with. Mine too,”~ Kai growled, his wolf gnashing his teeth as we circled our run around the back of the city walls.

~“You have issues with everything, Nikolai,”~ Derik sighed in the link.

~“The witches should have said yes. If they had, she wouldn’t have had to sacrifice herself,”~ Kai argued.

~“If they had said yes, the balance would have required a sacrifice all the same. We don’t know what that sacrifice was; maybe she did and decided not to let it happen. I know I’d volunteer for any of you,”~ I said, and they all went silent, but I felt the begrudging agreement in the link.

A gratefulness settled between us, a mutual respect where we stayed silent and remembered who she was.

Someone worthy of our anger, revenge, and our love.

She had it all.

I came to a stop to the east of the city walls, still in the forest.

There was a small clearing of trees, and I looked around to make sure there was no one else here.

I could ~just~ see the stone city walls through the trees, but there was enough distance that we were somewhat private.

~“I want to shift back, but I want to practice out here first. In case I suck at it,”~ I said, a slight whine escaping my wolf.

Brax snickered, ~“You can’t suck at shifting. It just happens,”~ he reassured.

I shook my head. ~“For you guys. I still want to practice first. How do I do it?”~ I asked.

Nikolai came forward and nuzzled against me as he whispered in the link, ~“Think of your human form. Your human mind. Let it come forward. Remember your human thoughts, human emotions, human limbs,”~ he nuzzled again, licking over my wolf face.

It was a strangely satisfying feeling. His wolf tongue was rough, but I liked it.

I tried to do what he asked.

Think human. Think human. Think human.

It wasn’t working.

I whined again.

Brax closed his eyes and thought of his human half. Then the magic heated his bones. He shifted in the next breath, letting me feel it through the link so I knew what to do.

~“Shifting hurt for me. Will it hurt on the way back?”~ I shuddered.

Kai shook his big wolf head, then shifted back. His shift was faster but much less graceful.

It didn’t hurt in the link, though, so that made me feel better.

I copied their thoughts, urging my body to heat and shift.

“It’ll ache, but only in warning,” Kai said calmly as he waited for me.

Brax leaned against a tree, sending me all the confidence he had while I shook out my limbs and concentrated.

It took a minute, but I finally felt a tingle in my stomach and in my bones that slowly warmed into that warning ache.

I blew out a breath, and on my exhale, the ache burst inside me.

I shifted from wolf to human as easily as my breath came. It left a slight ache in my bones with a throb in my head, but they both dissipated within seconds once I connected back with my Alphas. I grinned and looked at Kai and Brax, who were watching with hooded eyes.

“Did it look cool?” I asked, knowing how beautiful they looked when they shifted.

They both nodded before sauntering forward.

The link changed, drenched in want and need. ~“How am I meant to have a council meeting if I can feel what you three are doing without me?”~ Derik sighed in the link.

I let a chuckle escape, then bit my lip, not even a little embarrassed about being completely naked. Kai and Brax were too. Their cocks were already hardening, growing thick and long just the way I liked them. I licked my lips.

~“You could always join,”~ Brax offered as I moved into them.

Their bodies enveloped mine easily, kissing and caressing every part of my flesh. Derik groaned in the link, ~“I can’t. They need the details for the funeral ceremony, the details for the security and parameters so they can run their teams. They also want an update on Lorelai.”~

I knew he was dealing with a lot, tense again after trying to step back from everything, but it hadn’t worked. He was an alpha, a good one, and when things needed doing, he needed the control in doing them himself, as much as the other two tried to help.

I moaned as Kai’s mouth sucked at the flesh of my thigh, his body kneeling on the mushy forest floor beneath us. Brax was behind me, kissing along my neck, leaving more of his marks there.

~“I’ll come see you soon, Derik,”~ I panted, then fell into Kai and Brax’s pleasure.

Their touch was exactly what my aching bones needed after shifting properly for the first time. Pride swelled in the link, my Alphas impressed with the ability. I was too.

I hadn’t thought it mattered too much that I couldn’t turn fully, but it did. I felt a part of things now, a true part of the pack we led. My thoughts were stolen by Kai’s mouth on my pussy. I sucked in a breath, gripping his shoulders with my nails as his tongue stroked me. Brax slid his thick cock between my legs, thrusting in time with Kai’s strokes. My neck moved to the side, giving Brax more access to my neck and the sensitive flesh there.

I moaned as fire burned through my bones, the feel of my Alphas against me never failing to make me desperate for every touch. My breaths came out in pants as Kai pushed my body further and further toward oblivion, and Brax grazed me with his teeth. A threat and a delicious promise all in one.

I shuddered against them, whimpering as my legs tried to give way. They didn’t let them. Kai lifted a leg onto his shoulders, still using that wicked tongue of his in wicked ways. My clit throbbed with sparks that rang in my core, making me moan and clench my hands in his hair. He groaned as I yanked, then gripped my thigh.

Brax lifted me from behind, and Kai placed my other thigh on his shoulder.

“Keep her spread for me,” Brax groaned as he slicked his cock with my juices that were flowing easily thanks to Kai. He played with my clit in desperate licks and nips that had my stomach tightening painfully. I needed more.

Brax lined his cock up with my entrance, giving me a single breath before he was slamming inside me. He groaned, his chest rumbling against my back as he filled me. I cried out at the full feeling that attacked my body at the same time as Kai kept his mouth on my clit. He teased it relentlessly, keeping up with Brax’s thrusts. I was completely theirs, unable to move because they held every part of me, but when we were together like this, it was exactly the way I liked it.

I bucked against Kai’s mouth, clenching my pussy down on Brax’s cock.

“Fuck!” I trembled as they tormented me in the best way. It was so alive within me, the pleasure moving through every part of me, waking it up, stealing every ache and replacing it with heat. Every touch, feeling, and sensation was more potent, like having more magic and the ability to turn had made my entire body a nerve. A nerve my Alphas knew how to manipulate.

I shuddered, my hips gripped by Brax’s big hands hauling me back on his dick while Kai kneeled in front of me, feasting on me. It had everything inside me tightening, building with pleasure and heat. But it was more intense than I thought it could ever be. My fists curled tighter in Kai’s hair as I tried to breathe through the pleasure, but it came out in desperate pants.

Kai reached up my body, one hand still on my thigh, the other going to my bouncing breasts. I clutched his hand to them, crying out as he pushed his tongue over my clit again, this time harder. Heat exploded inside me, a sharp shooting firework of pleasure inside me that exploded in my core. I bucked against them, desperate for the friction. My orgasm rushed through me, heat and need collapsing in on each other at every part my body met. I breathed hard, sweat prickling as the orgasm kept going, the peak longer and stronger than I had ever felt. Kai and Brax kept me there, on the top of my orgasm, pleasure making me spasm into them.

“Oh my god,” I breathed, my head rolling back against Brax as he pumped into me. The ridges of veins in his cock against my walls kept my orgasm from leaving my body. His tip hit that spot so far inside me as Kai made sure my clit kept pulsing.

“I can’t, shit,” I panted, gripping them hard, the orgasm riding me as hard as I was them. It was too much.

“You’re a wolf now, Little Luna. Our orgasms are intense.” Kai smirked, then stroked his long tongue up my seam. I shuddered and whimpered. I wasn’t sure how long I could be kept there without collapsing.

Brax growled then, his grip tightening, his pace quickening until he was fucking me rough and fast, Kai keeping me spread for them. And then he came, pulling out of me and spreading his hot cum all over my lower back and ass. He pumped it out of his dick with his hand, then let out a low breath, his flushed chest rising and falling like mine was.

“Fucking hell, Spitfire. Gets better every time.” He kissed me, dragging me off Kai and meeting my mouth. I kissed him back, then turned to Kai, who was stroking his pulsing cock. He grinned at me, and I walked forward. I didn’t need to hear what he wanted in the link; I could feel it. His desire, his need. It was mine too.

And that need to fulfill his was strong, moving my body for me. I sauntered forward to him, lowering down his body to my knees. I looked back up at him, smirking as I replaced his hands with my own on his dick.

“That’s my good, Little Luna,” he breathed, pulling my hair to the side before sliding my mouth onto his cock.