POV: Maya
The back door opened and Liam walked in looking like someone had replaced him. Not physically, His face was the same, his build, his height. But the quality of him had changed entirely in the sixty seconds he had been outside. The person who had been leaning across my kitchen table talking about what it felt like to shift was gone. The person who came back through that door was someone who had already assessed the situation and made every necessary decision and was now simply executing them.
He crossed the kitchen in four steps and stopped directly in front of me.
"Pack a bag," he said. "Right now. As fast as you can."
I looked at his face. "What happened?"
"I'll explain while you move. Go."
Something in his voice bypassed every instinct I had to ask follow-up questions. I
