CASSIE’S POV
The night air was still warm on my skin when we walked back through the mansion gates.
Everything felt different. My feet on the grass, the smell of the trees behind us, the sound of the brothers laughing beside me. All of it felt more real, like someone had turned up the volume on the world and I was only now hearing it properly.
I had shifted. For the first time in my entire life, I had shifted.
Amara was quiet inside me now. She felt satisfied and warm.
She was curled up somewhere deep in my chest. She was just there, content, and that feeling alone was enough to make me smile.
"You ran into a tree," Darren said, looking over at me with a smile
I scoffed "I did not run into a tree."
"You absolutely ran into a tree," Bastian said. "We all saw it. The tree saw it. Am
