Chapter 35: Surprises

“It’s a good surprise,” said Lukas, “but I think you told me… you definitely told me that you’ve only ever fully transformed, like, once right?”

Eliza nodded. Their conversations had been relatively normal early dating ones up until this point. They had danced around the fact that they were both werewolves like it wasn’t the main reason that they were in Lukas’ car, driving out of Chicago to where he wouldn’t say where. They’d had the obligatory, “what made you a vegetarian?” “are you a vegan or a vegetarian?” and “what would you do if you were stranded on a desert island?” conversations.

“No,” she started, wondering how much she really wanted to get into a conversation about what had happened with Alessandro. “I… yeah… I think I fully transformed once. How do you tell? I mean, like, how do you tell that it’s a full transformation?”

“Tough to say. Were you super strong?”

“Yeah.”

“Did have, uh, like, were you fingers…”