ELIANA Shock doesn’t come all at once. It arrives in layers—first disbelief, then denial, then a strange, floating calm where your mind refuses to catch up with what your eyes have seen. I sat there, frozen on the bed, my fingers still tingling from where they had touched him. From where fur—real, warm, impossibly soft fur—had brushed my skin and sent a bolt of something alive straight through my body. A wolf. Not just a wolf. HIM. Jeremiah stood a few feet away now, human again, dressed, solid, real. But nothing about him felt ordinary anymore. Everything I had brushed aside as coincidence—his presence, his intensity, the way my body reacted to him without permission—suddenly had a shape. A truth. My heart was racing so hard I could hear it in my ears. "You… shifted," I whispered, finally finding my voice. He didn’t interrupt me. He didn’t rush me. He just watched, like he was braced for impact. "I know this is a lot," he said quietly. "And you don’t owe me an
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