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Just as I swing the bow up, a foreign sensation explodes inside of me. I’ve never felt anything like it before, but it’s bright and airy and all-consuming. It feels like a ball of pure, unfettered light, and it’s growing and growing inside of my chest like a snowball rolling down a hill. My fingers begin to tingle, and static rushes across my skin.
“ORION, STOP!”
The scream is ripped from deep within my chest, where that strange ball of light resides.
And Orion…stops.
Freezes.
One of his paws is halfway extended, and his lips are pulled away from his razor-sharp canines. His eyes remain fixed on Brooks’s face, unblinking. Vacant.
What the hell?
“Orion?” I whimper, terror plundering my defenses.
The wolf begins to shake—desperate rattles that have the floor vibrating underneath me. Jackson and Brooks both rush towards their brother at the same time the wolf falls to the ground. His fur gradually begins to recede, shrinking into his pale skin, and his limbs twist and contort until they’re arms and legs.
Soon, a naked, pale, sweaty, unconscious Orion is lying on the ground at our feet.
What the fuck?
What thefuck?!
“How is this possible?” Jackson breathes as he falls to his brother’s side. His fingers tremble as he holds them against Orion’s neck, checking for a pulse.
But I can see the rise and fall of Orion’s chest. He’s alive.
And human.
How the hell is he human?
Brooks whirls towards me, and I can’t quite read the expression on his face. “Lily, what did you do?”
“I…I don’t know.”
“Isn’t it obvious?” Levi tilts his head to the side, studying me with a keen intensity that steals the breath from my lungs. “She forced Orion to shift back into a human before the night was even over.”
“That’s impossible,” Jackson snaps, still kneeling beside his sleeping brother.
“I didn’t do anything,” I insist, but my mind can’t help but drift to the strange ball of light in my chest.
It’s no longer there, but I swear I can feel phantom tingles of it.
What the hell even was that?
“It’s impossible,” Levi agrees with a shrug, before adding, “for a human.”
“What are you implying, demon?” Brooks lunges at Levi with a roar of rage, but Levi simply laughs and phases away.
One second, he’s leaning against the wall, and the next, he’s standing directly in front of me.
His fingers brush my chin, the touch feather-light, and I hate the goose bumps that reflexively pop up on my skin. I’ve never been more conscious before of how little clothing I have on. My body remembers how good he made me feel, even as my brain reminds me of all the shit he put me through.
I hate him and want him in equal measure, and that infuriates me.
“I have to return to my employer now, but I’m here to talk whenever you’re ready, my lovely Lily Dean,” Levi tells me softly.
His eyes never leave my face. There’s a vow in his eyes. A promise. But what that promise is, I can’t decipher.
