CHAPTER SIXTY TWO

For a moment, I’m frozen in fear and the creature moves closer to me, it’s face inches from mine. That’s the moment I choose to let out a blood curdling screen.

My right hand transforms, and I slash at the creature’s face.

It howls in agony, and I scramble off the bed onto the floor and rush past it, shifting in midair. The creature is on my heels and when I look over my shoulder, I can see that it’s chasing me, it’s left eye injured and bleeding.

The size of it strikes terror in my heart.

It’s huge! It’s functioning eye is a terrifying red and it has black fur and it’s double my size in my shifted form. I push myself to move faster but it’s gaining on me. I don’t stop moving, ignoring my pulsing heart as it starves for oxygen. My legs are burning with the sudden exercise, and I know I won’t be able to keep up this pace for much longer.

I cross the river, splashing through it, knowing I will never be able to outrun it.

And then just as I think this situation cannot get any wor