SERAPHINA
“Phina… Phina…” I gasped, standing beneath the icy spray of the shower. My body trembled as I moaned through clenched teeth, pain raking through me. I knew it had only been half an hour—far too early for this to pass—but the heat flooding my blood and my wolf’s growing need were driving us both to the brink.
Phina whimpered weakly in my mind. She was fighting just as hard as I was, holding herself back from the primal urge threatening to consume us.
My knees buckled.
I collapsed to the cold tile floor, panting. “Just a little longer…” I murmured. “It’ll be over soon…”
Truthfully, I didn’t know if this trick would work. But I couldn’t give up, not now. It had to work.
The pain was unlike anything I’d ever known. My vision blurred, my mind clouded with fog. It felt as if some
