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“You really are the stupidest fucking shifter I’ve ever met. Almost got yourself trapped in the fae realm.” His lips twitched in dark amusement. “What they do to Earthlings who stumble into their world makes me look like a fucking saint.”
oop
Or so I thought until the smoky swirls of his little friend wrapped around me, lifting me up into the air as I squeaked loudly. Okay, then. He had sent in reinforcements and had zero trust.
LMAAOOOO
I shook my head. “Having this much beauty and knowledge at your fingertips is beyond words.”
I glared. Pup was used in packs if the shifter was a child. Calling an adult a pup usually meant you thought they were small, pathetic, beneath you… an insult. Exactly how this motherfucker meant it.
“Are you even listening to me?” he demanded. I blinked at him. “Sorry. I figured if you wanted me to listen, you’d have ordered it. Like everything else.”
death wish truly
“Your first shift?” He moved forward in his chair and I was almost certain I’d never had this sort of focused attention on me before. Shadow certainly knew how to make a girl blush.
no fr 🥺😇
He steepled his fingers. “Let me rephrase. You will do it again, or I’ll kill you and everyone you love.”
woah there big guy
I spat my words out between gritted teeth. “Remember how I told you it was my first shift? I can’t change on command yet. Rules of the Shadow Beast.” Should I really be reminding you of this, asshole? Energy slammed into me, locking my body in a vise, and as my spine arched, my wolf howled and tore her way out of my body.
welp
Silent sobs wracked me as I fought the fatigue and pain… and the loneliness of facing these trials alone. Would I never get a break? Was it too much to ask that every fucking day not be a hugely painful experience?
f him
“Go near my naked shit and I will figure out how to hoover your fucking ass into the next world.”
oop
Gaster nodded. “Oh, yes. He knows everything. Don’t worry. This is all planned.” Wonderful. I felt a lot better about being part of Shadow’s plan… not.
creepy
“Just follow Inky.” By this point, I’d figured out that “Inky” was something more than just a random mass of darkness seeped from Shadow. Gaster was too deferential toward it, even going as far as speaking directly to it.
lmaaoooo duhh
I needed my vibrator. Had that room of needs figured that out when it had been clothing me? Otherwise, I was going to have to find a chick friend here and get the lowdown on what this place was capable of. As cool as Gaster seemed, he was too much of a rule follower for me.
you’re done
“You’ve not begged or cried once,” he said, his voice softer than usual. “The few shifters who fall into my world are never calm.” This was the second time he’d been confused by my lack of deferential fear toward him.
i’m not a punk pussy hoe
“I own you now, Sunshine, and I will punish any and all insubordination.”
shadow and sunshine
The black shadow swelled to double its size and seemed to almost… jiggle. I was going to call that its laughing move because anything else was too terrifying to contemplate.
Inky shrank smaller but was definitely still jiggling. Smug bastard, just like Shadow.
“Lead the way!” I said with enthusiasm. Gaster blinked at me, those odd eyes capturing my attention as a sheen of green coated the black before it vanished. “Finally someone as excited as me to learn,” he said, and I wondered if that flash of green was his happiness shining through.
Valdor. Birthplace of the vampire. Creatures of lust and darkness. Drinkers of life force. Oh, yeah. Vampire town. Wait… vampires? There were legit vampires? Were they in the human world, too?
oop
All the while with a smile on my face because fuck you, Shadow Beast. He wanted me to fear him, and he had no idea how close he was to that achievement, but he also must have wanted me to hate him. In that, he could count himself successful.
It legitimately took every single ounce of my self-control not to punch his chirpy mouth. Had I said I liked him earlier? What the fuck had I been thinking?
Shadow. And he was standing right behind me.
oop
Seriously, though, why was I playing dominance games with a god? There was literally not one good reason, but I couldn’t make myself stop.
death wish
“That’s my power,” he said just as shortly. “If you can’t handle it, don’t step into the fire.” I snorted. “Right. Gotcha.” Asshole.
mmmm
“How does it all work?” I asked as a distraction when we were nearing the hallway to Earth. “The way you throw out random words and think they form sentences is appalling,” Shadow said, his accent a little stronger than usual.
lmaaoooo
The abervoq stopped moving, stilling unnaturally, and just as I was trying to figure out the next horrendous thing it had planned for me, a clawed hand came up and caressed the back of my head. It was a gentle, almost loving embrace, and I tensed, waiting for the blade to fall.
omg
“You’re this bright, bubbly, annoying creature,” he drawled, “whom I can’t seem to kill, even when I want to. So ‘Sunshine’ stays, and if you have a problem with it, too fucking bad.”
“‘Sunshine and Shadow’ sounds like a cute couple’s name!” I shouted after him.
HA THATS WHAT I SAID
“He’s trying to break you.” I snorted before going back to eating the delicious chocolate cake in front of me. “He has no idea what it would take to break me.”
love a baddie
In shifter talk, that time of the month could mean a full moon shift or I was about to shed the lining of my uterus. Either one worked if it got me out of dinner with Shadow.
With a final glance in the mirror, I smiled at my reflection. I seriously had to dress up more than once every twenty-plus years. Don’t get me wrong. Jeans, shirts, and mom buns were my jam, but there was something to be said about stepping into some glamour on occasion.
But there was nothing. Whoever was with Shadow was as powerful as the beast himself, able to mask their power with ease. Inky wrapped around me suddenly, and I ground to a halt. “What?” I whispered. “Is it dangerous?”
oop
“We don’t like to be kept waiting.” I pasted on my broadest smile, praying the red lipstick wasn’t smeared on my teeth. “A woman is never late, Shadow. We arrive precisely when we mean to.”
period
since he’d said we—but five males were seated around the fire, casually chatting, crystal glasses filled with a deep red liquid in their hands.
FIVE!!? REVERSE HAREM TYPE BEAT
Five sets of eyes landed on me, and in a less confident body, one would have melted to the floor at the intense level of power and sex appeal in a small area. Demure wasn’t my style, so I decided to just proceed as normal. “Where has Shadow been hiding you five?” I said, blatantly admiring each and every one of them…
no seriously
“Silver Lands,” I repeated, my hand still firmly in his grip. He smiled, and it was how I imagined an archangel looked right before they cut someone’s head off in a vengeance quest. “Yes, I’m a prince of the silver providence in Faerie.”
AHHHH I WANT
As he approached me, the very deep, dark blue of his eyes remained locked on my face, like he was trying to read me from afar, and I spent just as much time examining him because he was just so damn pretty to look at.
yummmyyyy
Reece didn’t smile. Something told me this guy smiled even less than Shadow, and why was I so into these dark and damaged assholes?
SAME
My lips twitched at that, and I already had Len slotted into the smartass friend category. Every group had one—the clown.
my favs
Friend two: Reece, the desert deity, was harder to categorize, but I had a sneaking suspicion he was the muscle.
yummy
Friend three: Alistair, the water warrior.
YUM
Friend four: Galleli—not a psychic.
lmaaoooo
And as spectacular as he was to look at, he also made me feel uneasy in a way the others who’d come before him hadn’t. There was a repressed fury simmering below the surface that could erupt at any time, and I decided then and there to keep my distance from that one in particular.
oop
He nodded. “Why, yes. Nice to see you’re both clever and stunningly beautiful.” He leaned in closer. “I’m a vampire master from Valdor, and I think you should ditch the grumpy beast and run away with me. I would shower you with jewels and more treasures than you could ever need.”
gimme kiss 😩😩 lmaaoooo it’s alwYs that one
Friend five: Lucien, master vampire. The smooth-talker—I’d been waiting for him.
love him already !! yup he is and he’ll lisa of bae
I snorted. “And I thought it was hard in Torma to lose my virginity. Apparently, it’s going to be even harder here…” There was dead silence as I trailed off, six sets of eyes locked on me, some wide with shock, others with interest. “Are you trying to tell me…” Shadow started. “That you’re untouched?”
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
The laughter burst out of me before I could stop it. “Definitely not. I’ve touched myself more times than I can count.” More silence, although there were a few smiles around the room now—Len and Lucien in particular.
STOP TALKING
I flipped him off, because why not, right? His eyes darkened, and as he started toward me, he grew in size.
LMAAOOOO
“Silence,” Reece demanded. “This is Shadow’s property, and he will choose what to do with it.” So I flipped him off as well because fuck you, dude.
LMAAOOOO IM ROLLING
Alone with Shadow, everything felt a touch scarier; the beast looked like he was fighting an internal battle. “Why that dress?” he finally bit out. “Red is a trigger for me. In many ways.”
i look good in it simple
