Page 5 of The Witch’s Shifter (Season of the Witch #3)

The Wolf

EVERYTHING IS DARK. MY SKIN burns with heat. My body is on fire. But I can’t move, can’t even open my eyes. All I know is pain.

Something is holding me down, a weight upon my chest and legs. What is it? I can’t tell.

A complex scent curls through the dark: woodsmoke and... mushrooms? There’s something else too, something sweet and light, something that draws me toward it, makes me think everything is finally going to be okay. It’s the same scent I detected in the woods, the same scent that led me to her .

The woman with hair like spring.

Remembering her makes the fire within me roar, and with it comes so much pain.

Enough to send me once more into the black.