KIERA My heart winged a thousand flurries, making me shake as I paced around. If I was going to do this, I had to be brave. I had to fully commit my heart, soul, and brain to this. To accept the hazards and pitfalls, to admit that it might not work and pain might be waiting on either side. I might have been jumping from a dungeon tower to my death, but giving up was not a choice. The wolf screamed in my head, howling in part-fury and part-agony. It had been days since I transformed. The longer I went without shedding off my human skin, the farther I was going away from my wolf. My senses were so acutely related to the animal in me that I was dying to connect and transform. And I knew very well that Cillian would never let me shift. If not for the human body, I had to try for the wolf l