LORELAI

I thought I would feel something more.

There was pain in turning, there was strength too, but I was expecting some bone-crunching, soul-crushing type of epiphany that I had to overcome to become one of them, but that wasn’t happening.

Instead, I clutched the table, my claws digging into the wood, my head down, breathing through the spinning in my head and ache in my bones that weren’t even close to the pain of childbirth.

“Tabby said it would be easy for you, that your body would accept the toxin,” Kai said, coming forward and pulling my hair back from my face.

I looked up at him, and he...