"You're stronger than you think," Brent said, moving to stand beside me. His hand found my shoulder, and I felt that now-familiar jolt of electricity. "The Alpha blood is awakening faster than we expected."
I looked around at their faces, all of them watching me with a mixture of determination and something that looked almost like fear.
The look in their eyes made me look towards the floor. The fear shining in their eyes was too much for me. Fin stepped forward, feeling my distress, "I don't understand why you're all looking at me like that," I said, crossing my arms protectively over my chest. "I'm not some fragile thing that needs to be coddled."
"No one thinks you're fragile," Fin said, his voice gentler than I'd ever heard it. "We're worried because we care about you."
"Since when?
