What had happened? What did I just see? That wasn’t possible. That man had turned into a bear. But that wasn’t possible, was it? How do you explain it? She collapsed against the wall in the same place the man had been sitting, suddenly completely and utterly overwhelmed. Her mind felt like it had just gone through a meat grinder. She couldn’t think of anything that resembled any kind of sense. That man had just turned into a bear in front of her eyes—and the strangest thing was that even before that, he’d had golden eyes. Such a thing just wasn’t possible. She knew it. She knew it in her heart. And yet, here she was. Jesse had been through a lot of things. He’d been beaten up more times than he could remember, especially growing up in New York City. He’d been yelled at, ins

