Read Online Psyche Shield by Chrissie Buhr - Free Book Online Page A

didn’t know there was anything else
before then. The boys nearly killed her, and I used magepower to stop them.
When I did the Wolves knew what I am and told me about Mages. That was when I
found out I’m not Human.” I deliberately left out the part where I killed the
teenagers with a thought. I didn’t mean to, but their accusing faces had
emerged in the void regardless.
    “I’m surprised they didn’t kill you,” Sierra asserted.
    “Billie carried my matebite, and I saved her life that
night. After she saved mine. Jason, our Alpha, gave me a chance, but it isn’t easy
to build trust with Wolves.”
    “It wouldn’t be. And the recent Mage problem?” Once she
started, she didn’t let up. During the conversation, she’d grown even more
comfortable with me, so I welcomed her curiosity.
    “That’s an even longer story.” I sighed and asked Billie to
fill her in. I don’t know how much you want to tell someone from another
pack.
    Gladly. Billie tucked her legs under her, getting
more comfortable as she picked up where I left off. “Nathan came to us already
collared, but we didn’t know it at the time. Kato knew, and he knew Nathan was
a pawn in the Mage’s plan to take the entire pack. He had a vision, and he
asked Sadie to help him stop it. What was the vision? You never did tell me.”
    Glancing at Amy, I took a deep breath. If I could erase a
memory from my own mind, I’d rid myself of this one. “He did more than tell me
what he foresaw, he shared the vision with me. Amy was in the forest, crying
and screaming while she told Kato what happened. Everyone was gone. Billie,
Matthew, and Jason were dead and every other Wolf was collared. Most of the
Humans too. Kato helped her get away, but she was completely broken. The Amy I
know was gone.” I couldn’t tear my eyes away from my friend. She covered her
mouth in horror, and Billie’s ire rose upon hearing the gruesome details. “It
was as vivid as a memory, but it hadn’t happened yet. Except I knew if I told
anyone about it or what I was doing to prevent it, Wolves would be lost. It was
so real. I’m glad I don’t have visions.”
    “That’s horrible!” Amy exclaimed and snuggled closer into
Nathan’s protective arms. Sierra shuddered at the idea of losing her entire
pack.
    Billie resumed the story, her voice harsh. “Sadie lured
Nathan’s owner in and pretended to be interested in joining them. That was the
first time Sadie ever met another Mage. Growing up in Pack territory, she
didn’t have the opportunity.
    “She even told Cassandra that she’d collared me. She didn’t,
of course, but I was her ticket in. When she met with Cassandra the second
time, she agreed to let them use me to take the pack. Gary, one of our Human
packmates, overheard them. You can imagine how he reacted. He told our Alpha
she’d sold us out, and I was collared. Jason ordered Matthew to kill Sadie, and
me too if I tried to save her. I stopped Matthew, and we fled to the mountains.
On our way out of town, we found out that Cassandra had used Nathan to kill
John. Nathan was missing.” She left out the part about beating our Alpha in a
fight in order to reach me.
    Anger darkened Nathan’s face, and he interrupted. “I
remember killin’ John, but I didn’t wanna kill him. I couldn’t stop m’self.
That Mage was yappin’ at me, and I said somethin’ out loud. He figured it out,
’n she could tell. She made me put a knife in his throat, steal a car, ’n join
her.”
    Amy tucked her head under his chin, the memory of that day
still haunting her. “They found John in his home, dead just like Nate said.
They told us Sadie did it and she had Nate and Billie collared. Almost everyone
believed it. She’s a Mage. That’s what they do, right? Me and Kathryn and a
couple others didn’t. It didn’t make sense. Sadie let Gary go when she could
have stopped him. And Billie left Matthew alive even though he tried to kill
her mate. She even called me right away to