“Please try even harder than that. It feels like my entire body is literally splitting in two, and I genuinely don’t think I can take this much longer.”
Suddenly I wanted that water again desperately, but I didn’t tell Elijah.
“You need to be strong right now, Adriana. We’re going to do something incredibly important for our entire kind, so it’s not going to be easy at first. Just please hold on.”
I’d heard stories that shifting was supposed to be painful and terrible, but I didn’t expect it to be this unbearably bad. This should be classified as punishment—a fatal one.
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ELIJAH
I watched her helplessly as she battled intensely with her own body. Even as Alpha, I seriously doubted there wasn’t much I could do in this situation.
It wasn’t like I could simply command her wolf to s
