Two Hundred-Thirty-Nine

I sit down, and she sits behind me. As she slowly starts to fix my hair, she says quietly,

“Yasmine, I never got to thank you for what you did that day after the full moon… If you hadn’t made me look past what he was to what I felt, I don’t know if I would have ever been able to accept him.”

“I wanted to help you. What you saw was horrible, and I wanted to show you that not all males were like that. Sometimes I wish I had someone to help me when I first met Zachariah. Jade helped a little but I still had to work it all out myself and do you want to know a secret?”

“Yeah.”

“Even when I was fighting him, I was scared shitless of how he made me feel. I was scared of him owning me, of him possessing me, but most of all, I was scared of him changing me..."

"Changing you? You mean changing you into one of us?"

"Yes, I was scared of that, but no. I was scared of him changing me from being a fighter. I was so sure that he wanted a girly girl, one that just looked after the house and ha