My claws dug deep into the pine floorboards, splintering the old wood as I crouched on all fours. "Kaela...?" Liam’s voice trembled, a frail human sound slicing through the roar of blood in my ears.He stood frozen, his knuckles against the wooden doorframe, his eyes taking in the sight of my lengthened jaw, the thick grey fur sprouting along my forearms.A low, vibrating rumble tore from my chest, a warning from a monster I couldn't control."I'm not going to hurt you," Liam whispered, taking a slow, agonizingly deliberate step forward. The floorboards groaned beneath his boots. "Look at me, Kaela. Just look at me.""Stay... back..." The words scraped out of my malformed throat, raw and painful. "Liam, please... I can't... I can't stop it!""Yes, you can," he insisted, his voice dropping into a steady, grounding murmur as he slowly sank to his knees, bringing himself down to my eye level. He was completely unshielded, his throat entirely exposed to a creature that could rip it out
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