*Arealla*

My fears turned out to be well placed. Even though I had half-shifted last night with Marcus, nothing we did seemed to make it come back out now.

“Okay, stop,” Liana said, staring at my face with an incredulous expression. “That just looks terrible.”

I dropped the stance that I’d been holding, not even sure what I was trying to do myself. It had worked with emotion last night, but obviously that couldn’t be the key every single time. ...