#Chapter 340 – Changed Forever

The next morning I can barely run, I’m laughing so hard. “Jesse!” I shout, tripping over my own feet as I try to keep a bead on him with my paintball rifle. “Quit doing that!” “No way, you’re getting too good!” He shouts back, laughing himself and disappearing again into a cloud of shadows before darting off between the trees. He found out this morning, when we were messing around in our run, that he can cast the shadows over himself, making them cling tightly to his form so that he, in essence, becomes a shadow himself. It doesn’t make him invisible – not really – but in the shade it does make him basically indistinguishable from the shadows cast by the trees. And damn, does it make him hard to shoot. “Jess!” I growl before I dart off after him, still laughing. “This is so unfair!” “You’re the one with the damn gun, Ari!” Left, Jackson says, directly into my mind. He’s ahead of me, of course, with those long Alpha legs. See where he’s running through the leaves and shaki