Shifted Fate (Amy) novel Chapter 471

I pulled my car directly into my garage and closed it. I barely had a second before the doorbell rang. I sighed, but I went to answer the door. Rick and everyone else was standing there in my doorway. “Hey, come on in.”

“What the hell happened to you.” Ternen seemed surprised.

Alannah sighed. “I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want you to worry.” I just smiled as I opened the door wide, and everyone trailed in, but I stopped Rick.

“I’m going to open one of the garage doors, pull in. I don’t want anyone to see your car on the street.” He nodded, then turned back to his car.

Nix. Heal the rest of me. I called out.

Finally. She and Megan got to work, and by the time I hit the garage door open, I was fully healed. Rick pulled in and I shut the door behind him. He slid out, surprised.

“How?” He waved his hands at me, and I just laughed.

“I stopped my wolves from healing me so I could seem weaker around the pack. I wanted them to see me, and think poor Amy.”

He laughed. “Smart.” I winked as I turned. “But what about everyone coming tonight?”

“I’ll use magic to make myself look hurt.” I cracked my neck. But Rick froze.

“Amy…” His voice was worried. “Shush.”

I turned back to him. “What?” He waved a hand around the air. He slowly mouthed the words. ‘Your house is bugged.’ I laughed. “It’s okay. A few weeks ago, I made a big show of cleaning the house up and removing Morgan’s and Shannon’s stuff, when Shannon started to spread the rumor about her and Brandon. I ‘found’ all the bugs and tossed them into their boxes. Pretending I thought they were just the knickknacks that they had hidden them in. House is clear now.”

He sighed and nodded. “Why didn’t you use the magic before and just heal yourself?”

“I needed for Vince to smell the blood. If it was just magic, he would pretend that it wasn’t that bad and use that as a reason to advocate for me to stay. I couldn’t let that happen.”

Rick shook his head. “Why did you need to transfer? I mean, we are all just running.” We met everyone in the living room. Abby ran over to me and gave me a hug.

“Can we go see Carly?”

I tapped her nose. “Not yet. But tonight we will.” I turned to look at Rick as I backed into the kitchen. “It’s a little different for Alpha’s. I needed to transfer so that I can ‘rebuild’ my father’s pack. I couldn’t start a pack, or claim the land without transferring out of my current pack. If I had done that, then Vince could have claimed rights over it.” I pulled out the steaks I had thrown into the fridge last night. I started for the back door, but before I stepped out into my backyard, I used some of my magic to make me look hurt again. I stepped out and started the barbeque. “Rick?”