- ALEX (ELISE)
"I need you to back the hell up. Right now," I growled desperately.
"You're shaking," he noted, his hand dropping to my shoulder, his grip tightening as if he were afraid I’d turn into smoke if he let go. "Your heart is going to burst through your ribs."
"Because you're suffocating me!" I yelled, planting my hands against his collarbones and pushing with every ounce of werewolf strength I had left. "I'm sick, Liam. I’ve been puking since five in the morning, I can barely stand on my feet, and you’re down here cornering me in a dirty concrete stairwell because your wolf had a mid-life crisis!"
He blinked, his eyebrows pulling together tightly as he processed the anger in my voice. The feral, gold tint in his eyes receded just a fraction, slowly wrestling control back from
