“No,” I said, aware that Ink was close—very close—to Shifting. “They’re just like you. Did you know they used to be human—Ink and Maddy and the rest? They were human, just like you. They were attacked, just like you. They survived. For that matter, so did I.” I thought about what Jed had said about the man who’d led the coven before Melissa. “My parents didn’t.”
My words seemed to snap Selena out of it. She stopped moving forward. Genuine emotion overrode whatever psychic push Melissa had left in her daughter’s head, and I saw an instant of doubt, vulnerable and raw, in Selena’s blue eyes, a single moment during which she wanted desperately to believe that she wasn’t alone.
That she wasn’t a monster.
That someone, anyone else could understand.
“Do you really think this is about Lucas?”
