She couldn’t stay. There was nothing else here for her other than heartache. “I heard you shifted,” Yurk said, his kind attempt to change the topic on served as a chilling reminder of why Anna should not be there, under that tree in GreyThorn Pack. “I did,” Anna replied, not meaning to sound as distant as she did. “I used to lose control too when I first shifted,” “You did?” Yurk nodded, his words making her feeling something similar to relief in her chest. So she wasn’t alone? “I feared I would hurt everyone I love, especially May, so I forced myself to learn to control, reminded myself every time I shifted of the people I loved and the reason I needed the strength, to protect them, run alongside them and not destroy them,” Yurk explained, “I chanted it like a f*****g mantra

