My whole body goes cold. I’m not just up against shifters and fairies, but the vampires too? Right now my whole mission seems completely hopeless. How am I ever going to negotiate anything between all of these species?
Don’t let him see your fear, my mother whispers in my head, words that only I can hear. Somehow she can sense the dread I’m feeling. So I do the only thing I can, I shift back into my human form.
The pain of doing so gets a little more bearable every time I do it, but it’s still not pleasant. I just feel more comfortable hiding my emotions as a human. My instincts tend to take over when my beast form is in control.
The smoke clears from around me and I smile sweetly at Barquan. “Thank you so much for the information,” I say, “You’ve been wonderful.” I drop the saccharine
