บททั้งหมดของ Beneath The Moons Bite: บทที่ 41 - บทที่ 44

Meghan's POVI took another sip of coffee just to give myself something to do with my hands.Ollie was still watching me like he was waiting for something important.Like I was about to break again.I wasn’t.At least… I didn’t think I was.“I don’t really understand all of it yet,” I said slowly, setting the mug down. “But when I shifted—there was this place.”His expression shifted immediately.“Place?”I nodded.“It wasn’t the apartment. It wasn’t anything real in the normal way. It was like…” I hesitated, searching for the right words. “Like everything I’ve ever painted at some point got pulled together into one place.”Ollie didn’t interrupt.Just listened.That made it easier.“It was a forest,” I continued. “But not just a forest. It was frozen and alive at the same time. There was a lake that looked like glass, and the trees were all covered in snow, but the sky was moving like it was breathing.”My fingers tightened slightly around the edge of the counter as I remembered it.

Meghan's POVThe darkness of the room didn’t hide the heat; it only made it more concentrated, trapping it under the heavy blanket. Every inch of space where our skin was close, even through clothes, felt charged.I held my breath, terrified that if I exhaled too loudly, the fragile peace Ollie had settled into would shatter. But the fire inside me wasn’t peaceful. It was a sudden, demanding pressure, tightening in my chest and making my pulse hammer against my ribs.It wasn’t steady anymore.It was building.Layering.Like something inside me was pacing, restless and awake in a way it hadn’t been before.I shifted slightly under the blanket, but the movement only made it worse—like my own skin was too sensitive to exist inside itself. My thoughts started to blur at the edges, slipping between awareness and something heavier, instinctive, pressing forward.He must have felt the sudden shift in my energy, or maybe he could hear how shallow my breathing had become. In the dark, I heard