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Who was she with?
He moved carefully, stealthily, peering through the branches of the trees, and then he spotted her. She wasn’t alone anymore, though. She was with someone: a lion.
Maurice.
Felix wished he could speak out loud in his dragon form.
They wouldn’t be able to understand us even if you spoke, Felix’s dragon murmured to him.
He knew it was true, but he still wished he could call out. He knew that lion. He just hadn’t seen him in a very long time.
Maurice wasn’t supposed to be a lion at all. He wasn’t a shapeshifter, but he was enchanted. He’d been cursed long ago by Ursula after trying to free Felix. The witch had tried to turn Maurice into a toad, but Felix had thrown himself at Ursula before the spell was complete, and she’d accidentally turned him into a lion instead.
It was one of the few mistakes the witch ever made, and it was one Felix had paid dearly for. She’d locked him up for over a month with nothing but water and porridge, and by the time he’d gotten out of the cage she’d kept him in, Felix had been just about willing to do anything.
He’d certainly been willing to kill her when the chance arose.
Maurice was hurt. Felix hadn’t seen the lion since he’d been transformed. In fact, he didn’t know the lion was even still alive. It had been at least a year since Maurice’s transformation, and Felix thought he knew everyone and everything that happened on the island.
Apparently, he wasn’t the only one with secrets.
Maurice had been injured somehow, and Tabitha was using her powers to heal him. Felix watched from above as Tabitha carefully used her mage’s energy to heal Maurice’s paw and bring the open skin back together again.
It was incredible to see.
For so long, Felix had only seen witch’s destroy things. He’d never seen them heal. Certainly, he’d never seen anyone heal anything or anyone the way that Tabitha had.
The lion left, running away, and Tabitha kept walking. She was intent on reaching the castle, he knew, and he didn’t blame her. She was on a mission. She probably felt like Felix had abandoned her on purpose, but he hadn’t.
He hadn’t known he was a shifter.
He dropped to the ground behind her. He was silent, but she was a trained mage. She stopped walking immediately.
“You’re back,” she said, spinning around. “Why?”
He opened his mouth to speak, but only a roar came out.
“Change back to your human form,” Tabitha told him. She crossed her arms over her chest and watched him. “I can’t understand you as a dragon. Then again, I’m pretty sure you know that.”
He knew it, but he realized all of a sudden that he didn’t know how to change back.
Calm down, his dragon whispered to him. You can do it. Give yourself a moment.
He took a deep breath, trying to force his body back into its human-sized package, but nothing happened.
Tabitha stared at him for a minute, and then she clapped a hand over her mouth.
“Oh shit,” she mumbled. Then she dropped her hand. “Oh shit,” she repeated.
Yeah.
Felix kind of had the same feeling.
“You don’t know how to change back, do you?”
Embarrassment washed over Felix as he looked at the woman he thought was his mate.
No, he didn’t know how to change back.
