Forbidden Griffin (BODYGUARD SHIFTERS #8) by Zoe Chant EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Zoe Chant
- Language: English
- Genre: Paranormal / Sci-Fi
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CELA
The other griffins left Cela on a wooded headland, looking out over the
lashing gray waves. It was forbidding and lonely, even compared to the
rocky island where she had spent her entire life. Nothing grew here except
scrubby trees and mosses. On this chilly night, spitting rain swept over the
barren landscape, making it even less hospitable than usual.
To add to her humiliation, she had been forced to fly to the mainland not
in her griffin form, but as a human, riding on the back of another griffin.
She could not transform and fly because there was no safe way to carry the
twins. They were too young to ride on her back or fly with her, and their
shifting was too unpredictable for them to be safe in a harness carried
against her body when she had no hands to manage them.
Most griffin mothers would be home during these early months, safe in
the covert, surrounded by their own kind.
Instead she climbed down off Kav’s back, forcing back tears of grief
and shame. The two griffins who had escorted them stood proudly on the
headland like a pair of guardian statues. Both were huge, one a tiger/owl
hybrid, the other a leopard/osprey. The clan’s enforcers were never
weaklings. Kav was the most classic of griffin shift forms, a lion/eagle, with
a tawny mane cascading regally down his back.
Cela felt nothing like them. She didn’t feel grand and proud; she felt
small and weak. She had to force herself to keep her spine straight, even
with the weight of the babies in their front carrier, safely and warmly
bundled underneath her poncho.
She could tell by their squirming that both were awake, and one of them
had shifted. It was Ayra, the female twin; she felt the pinch of a tiny beak,
the fluffy flapping of unfledged, stubby wings. Had it been Aven, her
brother, the carrier would have dipped beneath the weight of a lion cub.
The two griffin enforcers abruptly shifted into a man and a woman.
They were just as forbidding in their human forms, both tall and statuesque,
wearing flowing cloaks. It seemed that the woman might be looking at her
with pity. Cela turned her face away.
Unfortunately the only place that left her to look was at Kav. He shifted
as well and gazed down at her. No pity there: his face was cold and distant
as the icy northern sea beating against the headland.
Kav. Her mate. Once she had believed that he cared for her. Loved her,
even. Now she knew better.
“How can you do this?” she asked him. “To me—to your children?”
It seemed that his eyes held a flicker of—something, she wasn’t sure
what. But before he could say anything, the male of the enforcer pair spoke
up.
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