Chapter 40

I gasp as I inhale loudly, coughing out, splaying my limbs, and shuddering viciously as he catches me in his arms and then immediately lets me go to twist and turn onto my belly. I wretch and gag at the same time before vomiting a ton of blood and mucus right over the top of Colton’s naked thighs, as I’ve no control over my aim. My wolf body ejects all that internal damage as though somehow healing is just the process of getting rid of the broken bits I no longer need, and I’m covered in my own mess. Matting my leg fur and clinging disgustingly around me. I scramble away from him so as not to make this worse, and find myself on all fours, suddenly rejuvenated as the pain diminishes, and I gasp. The transformation heals me as fast as is possible—from head to foot. Cuts close up, bones crack and re-form, and my lungs expand fully, allowing me to breathe again. Shaken, sore all over as it fades away properly, but completely healed. Within minutes, I stand up as though I didn’t just go thr