Chapter 19: The Wolf Within
The ancient forest embraces them with shadows and moonlight as Dorian's magic deposits them in a clearing surrounded by towering oaks that have witnessed centuries of supernatural transformations. Moss-covered stones ring the space like an amphitheater, and Ella realizes with some distant part of her consciousness that this is a sacred place—somewhere werewolves have been coming to shift for generations beyond memory.
But rational thought is becoming increasingly difficult as her body continues its violent metamorphosis. The pain has transcended anything she believed possible, radiating from every bone, every muscle, every cell as her human form struggles to give way to something far more primal. Her spine arches impossibly as vertebrae c***k and extend, and s
