MY ENTIRE BODY JOLTED as I woke, like some bastard had crept up on me while I slept and zapped me with a few thousand volts. My heart hammered inside my chest, along with the tail-end of a growl, and it took a few side-to-side eye darts for me to get my bearings. To recognise the ceiling and walls of my room and the scent of my bedding draped across me.
Detangling the sheets, I flicked my legs over the side of the bed and stumbled to the mirror, bracing a hand against the wall beside it as I leaned in close.
From within my eye sockets, solid black glossiness shone back at me.
Shit.
Staring harder at my reflection, I willed the darkness to disperse from my eyes, for the whites and hazels to return. Just as I had every other time it’d happened.
Whenever I woke with a heavy craving clawi
