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As I waited for Jesse, I breathed unrest. Not able to sit still on the mattress any longer, I slid to the floor.

Exhaustion seeped into my skin, past my bones, past my blood, and into my very soul. I was losing the fight against the pull wanting to drag me back into the past, and I knew it.

This drain was winning, and it knew it, too.

For once, Alaric was quiet. All his usual humor, constant commentary, and flippant remarks were nowhere in sight as he sat on the other side of the room, giving me the space I needed, even as his hawk-like eyes tracked my every move.

I ignored him entirely, battling the weight of my memories. But I was losing that war, too.

Growing up, I had a condition called sluggish growth. It was rare among our kind, but it happened. One in a crowd, they said.

It meant I developed slowly in everything: brain, body, age, muscle, and mind.

Shifting was the only hope to ever overcome sluggish growth. But that was where the problem lies, because people like me lived fo
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Evan’s mother had made the wrong choice for herself and him going together with Baevera’s father who was a cruel man.. including his daughter and whole family
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