Diana’s Pov
The words sat heavily between us like a lead rope intent on sinking its victims, I kept playing with the edges of my blanket feeling like I had been laid bare, it didn't matter that he had seen me naked before, this was an intimacy that even I couldn't understand, that made me uncomfortable.
He blinked looking at me like he was seeing me for the first time and maybe was, I shrugged,
"It's something you are aware of. I can't shift." I whispered and he frowned, his gaze turned
to calculate and in a way, I understood why
"Why?" he asked, I knew shifting was a very complicated action, it required one to tap into the energy locked in them, like a living breathing entity, and just like that they each had a way of being summoned, you could coax, order or converse with it, but all
