Chapter 21: to feel safe
Roma's POV
"Well, you look like s**t. Respectfully." Raphael said when he entered my office and took one look at me as I sat with my hands on the table behind my desk.
His eyes held sympathy that would have made me roll my eyes and throw jabs at him if I wasn't so tired.
It was one of the after effects of shifting into the Beast. I knew how I looked in front of the mirror.
Eyes that looked like they hadn't slept all night, bones that ached from the painful turn and a voracious hunger that made me feel like I had not eaten in days.
I had woken up sometime around three in the morning, no longer in fore and hind limbs and the chains were intact which was a wonderful thing. I'd learned the hard way over the years on what could contain the Beast and knew that
