Shadow of the Beast

Seventeen

I paused and then finally decided to come clean.

'Grandpa, I... I've been lying to you.' I immediately felt a flush of heat rise in my cheeks, as if saying it out loud came with a free order of guilt.

'Oh really?' he responded, in a tone that suggested that this was not new information to him.

I looked at him, squinting my eyes in confusion, and finally said 'yes. I actually have control, on the full moons I mean. I have had control for a while. I know what I'm doing on the full moons, and remember everything the next day..' I was starting the ramble, every bit of information spilling out of me, but William interrupted with a big, hearty laugh. He wiped a tear from his eye.

'Thank God you're finally admitting it, I was getting nauseous watching you fumble through all those rabbit murde