"right" I said stupidly, trying to think what I needed to say what he needed to know all the things the potential conversations I had experienced in my head with him were very different to this experience, " well shifters we obviously try to keep what we can do very secret um... our numbers aren't great and our elders know that they know we are physically superior to humans but hell they have numbers on their side and the packs we are small. We are families but fragmented and so staying hidden is necessary. I ...my pack we aren't the biggest. It's basically a family and Aiden I... I ... we... I thought I loved him. . He, Aiden was. It's hard to be one of us. We grow up struggling every day, fighting being f*****g teenagers but being told constantly that we cannot feel any of our emotions.
