ELION

I didn't know when this primal beast inside of me was born, but I had the vague sense that it was around the time things began to change between Loretta and me

Before now, I had never known what it felt like to be consumed by possessiveness; I had never had the overwhelming urge to bring a man down simply because he dared to speak about another person as though she could belong to him.

But over the past few weeks, something inside me had changed. It was as if the walls around my heart had been forced apart to make room for something that had no business existing...