Total pages in book: 48
Estimated words: 44578 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 223(@200wpm)___ 178(@250wpm)___ 149(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 44578 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 223(@200wpm)___ 178(@250wpm)___ 149(@300wpm)
Sometimes Isaac or Hayes would comment, telling her whose house she was seeing and even which Alpha and his mate. They seemed surprised when she told them about an older couple.
Isaac squeezed her shoulders. “Those are our parents. You met them yesterday.”
She stopped her rundown to tip her head back and look up at her Daddy. “Ironically, I didn’t see your parents yesterday.”
Isaac chuckled. “True. Well, now you’re seeing them.”
“What are they up to?” Hayes asked, his voice filled with mirth. “Please tell me they’re kissing or something so we can harass them.”
Rylee swatted at her Daddy’s arm. “You will do no such thing.”
He feigned injury, rubbing his forearm as though she’d hurt him. “Just kidding, Little mate. I promised you I wouldn’t use your skill for my own amusement, and I won’t do that to Amber either.”
She narrowed her gaze at him. “You better not. If I find out you told anyone their dinner was stinky, I will never forgive you.”
He laughed. “It won’t happen, Baby girl. I give you my word.”
Amber smiled as she resumed her description of their surroundings. It was strange, but she was growing used to her ability. Eventually it would be second nature.
“Can you see anything farther, Little one?” Isaac asked when she finished categorizing everything within a few miles. It was going to take her some time to memorize distance and be able to judge how far away things were, but this exercise was helping start that process.
After another deep inhale, she focused again, looking past the homes of the Alpha Protectors who lived on this side of the mountain. “I see people I don’t know. I assume those are the bears?”
Isaac nodded. “Probably. It will be hard to help you identify any distances with regard to the bear shifters because none of us have visited their homes. They always come to us. Until now, it’s been easier. They know where we are. They have advanced skills that lead them to us. Until our mates started showing up with super-shifter abilities, we had no way to match the skills of the bears.”
Amber focused again. “Okay, so I can see Drow in that cage where he was last night. There are two men guarding him. I assume they’re also bear shifters, but no one is shifted right now.”
Isaac slid a hand around to pat her chest. “Good girl. Can you see others nearby? We don’t know how spread out their homes are.”
She searched, eyes wide. “Yes. I see what I assume are homes. Oh, there are a lot of people together in one place. They’re standing outside in a circle. It looks like maybe they’re having a meeting. One person is talking. The others are nodding understanding.”
“Wow,” Hayes commented. “That’s so specific. Incredible.”
“No lions I guess…” Daddy sounded frustrated.
“I don’t think so, but again, if they’re in human form, how would I know?”
“I can help with that,” Rylee said. “I can smell them. If you identify where people are even by pointing, I might be able to discern what species they are.”
“She’s right,” Hayes added. “And if we did this one day with Molly, she might be able to listen in and provide more details.”
It was all so mindboggling.
Isaac rubbed her chest between her breasts. “Do you want to shift and try again so we’ll know if your wolf can see more than your human?”
“Yes, Sir.” When he released her, she took a few steps away from him, closed her eyes, and let the shimmer take her from her human form to her wolf. She was surprised by how easy it was. After all, this was only her second shift.
Starting over, she concentrated on everything she’d seen the first time. For a few minutes, it all looked the same, but then she paused as she scanned the homes she assumed belonged to the bears.
A tingling sensation crawled up her spine kind of like it had earlier when she’d suddenly seen Isaac and Hayes through the walls. She focused on one home until suddenly the walls seemed to dissolve in front of her.
She’d never be able to describe what this sensation was like. It felt like a portal opened up, parting the barriers, allowing her to see inside the home. There were two people inside. They were sitting in the living room. The woman was reading. The man was rubbing her feet in his lap. They were both smiling, and she got the impression they’d been together a long time. They were comfortable in their silence.
It wasn’t that she could hear or not hear them, but she could see specifically that no one’s mouth was moving. It felt invasive. At some point, she was going to catch people naked or having sex. She would be mortified beyond belief, not to mention scarred for life.
When the man grabbed the woman’s ankle and dragged her closer to him, she fell onto her back on the couch. He rose up, planted a knee between hers, and bent to kiss her.