ALARIC POV
*Love is a b***h - Two feet*
Her teeth pulled free and air hit the wound in a rush that should have hurt more than it did, but I barely registered it because the shift snapped back without warning, violent and fast, bone cracking and muscle pulling as fur receded and my body folded back into itself like it had been forced into place too quickly, the transformation ripping through me like a second shockwave until I dropped to one knee, breath dragging in too sharp, too fast, my lungs struggling to keep up with everything that had just happened all at once.
I was human again, bare, covered in blood that wasn’t all mine, bruised and burned in places I knew were going to hurt like hell in about five minutes, every inch of my body screaming now that the adrenaline wasn’t drowning
