I was sitting next to the window in my room reading when the ache started in my chest and spread like wildfire, a pressure I couldn’t shake. My muscles trembled, my skin prickled, and beneath it all, my wolf rumbled, restless and desperate. The full moon was coming, and with it, something ancient and raw was waking inside me. I had felt it before, but never like this…never so insistent, so… demanding.
I managed to make my way downstairs and out the back door. Talon stayed close, as he always did. I could feel his presence even before I turned to see him, a calm steadying force against the storm raging inside me. “Kaia.” He said softly, hand brushing against mine. “You don’t have to face this alone.”
I shook my head, wincing as my spine arched. “I can’t control it anymore, Talon. I… I don
