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Chapter 13
Rei
I
needed to get everyone on team #prisonbreakout in the same room. I knew Wren could handle herself, but I didn’t want her to meet the same fate Astrid did. I had hoped to pull her into a secret mail room meeting after dinner, but she disappeared with the witches.
I snuck off with Dakarys and Rajack, but we wouldn’t come to an agreement. They didn’t think it was safe to broach the topic in our cell around so many foxy ears. They seemed to have accepted me, and I didn’t think they would eavesdrop if I were trying to be quiet. No one said a damned thing about the whole mate thing with Faust, which was pretty significant here.
Speaking of foxes, mine was going crazy. I wasn’t a shifter. I didn’thaveto shift and run all the time like they did. I just liked to. I wouldn’t have thought it would have been this major thing if the foxes didn’t know my secret and I didn’t get yard time to let my fox out.
But I was going insane. My skin was itching and burning. The last time this happened, I was just a kid and turned into a fox for the first time. I didn’t know what was going on. I should have thought it was the coolest thing ever. My vision and hearing were accelerated. I could smell everything. It was like the entire world came alive.
I didn’t. I was so ashamed and hid it from my parents. I was adopted, and I thought they would send me back if they found out I could turn into a fox. Now, I was thinking they knew this entire time. Did I do that when I was just a baby and couldn’t control it?
Even if I hid it, I turned into my fox every time I had an opportunity. I couldn’t run in the woods, but I tore ass around my backyard until I moved out. Shifting in college was a little easier. I snuck out after dark and ran in the park.
I don’t know why I ever thought I was a fox shifter. It was probably because I’d never met a shifter until Hauser. When I turned into my fox, it wasn’t even remotely close to another shifter. There was the red cloud for one, but none of my bones snapped, and my clothes shifted with me.
I never destroyed a single set of clothes or ended up naked somewhere when I shifted back. I thought everyone could give themselves ears, fangs, and a tail like me. Hauser made it pretty clear no shifter on the planet could do that, but it didn’t make me feel weird like the first time I shifted. Hauser thought it was the coolest thing ever. Sometimes, I walked around his house with ears and a tail because he’d sit there muttering about what a badass I was. Yeah, sometimes, I needed my ego stroked.
Something was wrong. I nearly let my demon out when Faust tried to wake me. It felt like I was constantly trying to reign things in. I needed to do it. I needed to shift.
“That area in the corner is a blind spot for the cameras, right?” I said through gritted teeth.
“Yeah, why?” Dakarys said.
“Something is wrong,” I said.
I ran to the corner and shifted. I instantly felt better. I shook out my fur and desperately wanted to run. I couldn’t for now. Before I shifted back, the door flung open. I growled low in my throat. Rajack jumped in front of me.
“Hi, Wren,” Dakarys said.
Wren knew a lot, but she didn’t know everything.
“Why does Rei have two tails as a fox?” Wren demanded, shutting the door.
What the fuck? Since when did I have two tails?
