Another knock came at the door. “Leigh? Are you in there?” Shay called. “We need to head to Bri’s suite for a meeting, but I’ve got to find her too. Oli already walked over.”
I closed my eyes, sucking in a deep breath through my nose and letting it out slowly. When I opened them again, Bri was staring at me, her wolf’s eyes shining bright with the same white light that shone from my palm.
“Are you sure?” she asked me, and I knew in that moment that she was hoping I would say no.
“I’m surer than I’ve ever been about anything,” I told her. “Let’s get to this meeting. But can we keep this between us for now? I have a few months until we need to do it, and I don’t want to deal with the arguments in the meantime.”
“Doctor-patient confidentiality,” she whispered, then got up to go tell Shay
