Scarlet
I couldn’t breathe.
The world around me blurred—spinning, twisting, caving in.
Maya.
Maya had betrayed me.
The words echoed in my mind, relentless, clawing at the edges of my sanity. I felt sick, my stomach twisting into knots so tight I thought I might break apart.
I didn’t know when I started backing away.
Didn’t know when the trembling turned into violent shaking.
I only knew that something inside me was snapping.
The pain. The betrayal. The anger. It all crashed into me like a tidal wave, a suffocating force I had no way of stopping.
Heat spread through my veins.
My breath turned ragged.
My skin burned.
And then—
Then I was falling.
No. Not falling. Changing.
The shift came suddenly, violently—my body contorting, bones snapping, fur erupting over my skin. I bare
