To Protect the Crown

Chapter 1 My First Shift

“Everly, the ball is in two weeks are you going?”

“He won’t let me go Aimi. You know my brother.”

“You are sixteen, he has to let you have fun sometime.”

“You know that, and I know that, but he doesn’t. Only if I had my wolf. He might let me go, at least I would have some hope.”

“She will come soon, you just turned sixteen yesterday.”

“I can hear her sometimes. She has been talking to me off and on for the last two days.”

“I’m a week older than you and I don’t have mine yet, maybe we can get them at the same time.”

“That would be neat. The full moon is tomorrow, let’s plan to meet on the training field at eight.”

“Be careful. Byron will be expecting you to run off.”

“When has he ever caught me.” Aimi shakes her head at me and my antics.

The day went by slowly, and it felt like eight o’clock would not get here fast enough. Time to get rid of these guys. They never look up, so I slide out the upstairs window and down the drainpipe. It only took me an hour to ditch my two bodyguards. I did not want to shift around them.

“Over here, Everly, under these trees. You finally got rid of Mut and Jeff.”

“They thought I went to the kitchen, but I went upstairs the back way and climbed out the window. Byron set alarms on the doors, so they won’t think I left the house. It will take them hours to find me.”

“Remember when you tricked them and they got a bubble bath, by filling the wash machine with bubble bath and pretended to have fallen in the suds on the floor. They kept slipping and sliding all over. I couldn’t help laughing.”

“They smelled like lilies all week. My brother hates that I keep losing them. He might be the Alpha of this pack but that doesn’t mean I have to be under his thumb.” My parents died when I was eight and he has raised me for the last eight years. He is not mean to me he is just overprotective. He is so afraid that something is going to happen to me.

“Everly, it’s almost midnight.” Aimi starts to scream, I watch her bend over and start to change shape, as her bones start to crack and then she stood in front of me as a beautiful light gray wolf with a white stripe on her face.

“You are beautiful!” When I go to pet her, I get a sharp pain in my leg then it spreads all over, the pain is so bad. Finally, the pain stops as fast as it started. As I look at my feet my fur is a golden blond, I have never seen this color wolf.

“Can you hear me, Everly?”

“Yeah, this is so cool! I can hear you through my mind. Do you want to run to the lake so we can see what we look like?”

“Right behind you.” I take off and feel like I am flying. “Slow down I can’t run that fast. Everly, slow down.”

“Sorry, Aimi, I didn’t mean to leave you. Come on the lake is just over there.” When we reach the water and see ourselves in its reflection, we are both amazed how beautiful we are.