The Forgotten Heiress novel Chapter 79

"I'm not going to let you go, we are mates. We'll talk about it. I know it looks really bad but I swear I was going to talk to you about it tonight. Let me explain, you will see that it is not as bad as she made it seem."

Jessica wanted to laugh but she couldn't. She knew that if she did, it would lead to crying. And she felt that once she started crying she would never stop. She'd never felt such pain before. She couldn't even compare it to what she had felt growing up feeling unwanted by her real parents.

Jessica took another deep breath, trying to control the anguish that she felt spreading through her body and fought to get out of Nicks embrace.

She stomped on his foot with enough force to surprise him and he dropped his arms. "You no longer have the right to touch me," she told him without an ounce of emotion in her voice.

Nick fisted his hands and looked at her, his face set in taut lines. "I'm not letting you go."

"You don't have a choice," she told him coldly. Without waiting for a response she turned to look at Axel and Christian. "You once pledged your loyalty to me. Was that a lie too?" She asked them in the same flat tone.

They shook their heads.

"Prove it," she demanded. "Prove it this one time and after that I release you from your pledge. I want to go. Hold him back don't let him stop me. If my friendship ever meant anything to you, keep him away from me." She looked at them, allowed them to see the torment in her eyes. "I want to go home."

They didn't say anything.

Christian and Axel relaxed their stances and allowed her to walk past them and when Nick took a step towards her, they blocked his way. It would take the two of them to hold Nick back. It would hurt, they knew it would but they owed it to Jessica. The pain they had glimpsed in her eyes speared them right through to their hearts. They'd never imagined that their actions would hurt her so much.

"Get out of my way," Nick snarled.

"Let her go," Axel murmured.

Axel and Christian didn't miss the desperation in their Alpha's eyes but the pain in Jessica's had undone them. They would help her get the space she needed.

With those words a gust of power flew out of her, slamming all three men to the ground.

Jessica didn't wait to see if they were OK. She didn't stop and wonder how she did what she'd just done. She turned and fled, ran as fast as she could into the woods where she knew it would be easy to lose them.

She would run until her lungs collapsed and it didn't hurt to breath. She would run until she could no longer feel her heart breaking and every beat didn't hurt. She would run until her legs gave out, until her mind couldn't think any more, until everything inside of her went numb.

Her newly released wolf felt her pain and it did the only thing it could do to protect her. It took over.

Suddenly Jessica felt like her body had gone up in flames. Everything hurt, she felt as if she was been stabbed by a thousand needles. Jessica bent over in pain and that's when she noticed it. That's when she saw the grey fur sprouting out of her.

Horror struck and unable to look away, she looked down at her body as it shifted from human to wolf. Her feet and hands became paws. Her fingernails became claws and she felt her teeth grow longer. She couldn't stay upright any longer and she fell to the ground even as her nose elongated and her sight shifted.