Chapter 24

Rose POV

I lay there frozen as Damien’s words played in my head over and over again. My brain was trying to process what my body already knew. Fear started to seep into me as I started to remember the horror stories of people's first shifts. I snuck out once to watch someone shift for the first time and I cried for them. Watched them whither around the ground in pain, for what felt like hours, as their bones popped and broke as they took the form of their wolf.

The worst part to me was the sickening sound and sight of their skull breaking and forming a snout. I think the easiest part of the whole thing was them sprouting fur as their body changed. I heard a couple of girls talking once saying when their fur started to grow, it was a terrible itch that you can’t scratch, but it’s nothing compared to the breaking of your bones.

Now it is my turn. I can’t do this. When my 17th birthday came around and I still hadn’t shifted, I thought I had no wolf. Alpha Maximus didn’t seem to be mad