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I woke with a violent gasp.
Air tore into my lungs so fast it hurt.
My entire body jerked upright before I even knew where I was, my heartbeat pounding so loudly against my ribs that I couldn’t hear anything else.
For several terrifying seconds, the world was nothing but a blur of grey silk and suffocating heat and I was back in the suffocating depths of the Stormfang forest, with the masked assassin.
But this time, he wasn’t standing over, I was standing over him.
And I was the monster.
My teeth sunk into his throat, the hot spray of crimson painting my white fur, and the sickening pop of bone as I ripped him apart with a primal, mindless hunger till he was nothing but a messy mass of bones, skin and blood.
I instinctively looked down at my hands, my fingers splaying open a
