His Nanny Mate (Moana and Edrick Morgan) novel Chapter 240

#Chapter 240: Shifted

Moana

“Edrick?” I called out.

My voice was only met with nothing but an echo. The world around me was silent… In fact, as my eyes slowly opened, I realized that I was no longer on the cliff. The only thing that I could see around me was a soft, golden light that was somehow blinding yet calming at the same time.

Was this what it was like to be dead?

The last thing I could remember was the blood on my fingers. Michael must have stabbed me and finally got his way, and now I was dead.

I quickly looked down at my hands. There was no blood. No pain… In fact, I didn’t feel anything at all. I could hardly tell where my skin ended and the golden light began. My body felt weightless and free, like my entire existence was just a feeling and not a physical mass.

But it was strange. When I was in my coma, everything was just a black void. But now, it was all golden and peaceful.

“No.”

I jumped when I heard my wolf’s voice call out from the golden light.

“Mina?” I asked, looking around wildly. “Is that you?”

“Yes, it’s me.” Her voice seemed to be echoing all around me at first, but then it started to coagulate into one place. Finally I could pinpoint where her voice was coming from, and I spun around in that direction.

My eyes widened when I finally saw her standing there for the first time… In the flesh.

“Mina,” I whispered, reaching out my hands as she slowly approached me. “You’re so… beautiful.”

She was everything that I imagined, and more. Her fur was a beautiful, vibrant golden color, like the color of the sun. She had a little white swirl on her forehead that came down her muzzle in a thin line. That same white patch was on the front of her chest.

When I tangled my fingers into her fur, it was so silky and soft. It felt as though I was touching feathers, or nothing at all.

I gasped when I saw her tail. It wasn’t just one tail, but three. She was unlike any wolf I had ever seen before.

“Like it?” she asked, twitching her three tails back and forth.

I nodded, then looked up with wide eyes to meet her gaze. Her eyes were different colors; one was bright blue, like the color of the sky on a sunny day, and the other was green, the exact same shade as my own eyes.

But although I was so fascinated by her beauty, I still felt sad.

“What’s wrong?” she asked.

I shook my head and stared down at my feet. “I’m sorry we couldn’t shift in time. I feel like I failed you. Like I failed the world by allowing the last generation of the Golden Wolf to be destroyed.”

Mina gave me a puzzled look. “I said no, though,” she said, chuckling a bit.

I furrowed my brow. “Huh?”

“I said ‘no’. Earlier, you were thinking to yourself that you were dead, but you’re not. You’re just shifting.”

“I am?” I asked. “How? Where am I?”

Mina chuckled again. “Time feels frozen right now, doesn’t it?”

I nodded slowly, then bit my lip. “It feels nonexistent, actually.”