CHAPTER 85

  Elizabeth's Point Of View

  The next few days go by almost in a run. Though Sebastian didn't show it, I know these few days have been hard on him, specially because he couldn't blink an eye to sleep. Not once.

  As our time is coming to an end, I find myself closer to telling him about that night he shifted. I want him to know that he's not the monster he thinks himself to be.

  "Sebastian," I say, mustering up my courage.

  "Watch your step," he says, pushing aside the vines in front of his face. "The trees are older here, you might trip on a root."

  "I know," I say, my eyes on my feet. "But I have to tell you something."

  "Hurry it up,"

  I take a deep breath and grab his hand. Sebastian's head snaps back towards me, his eyes permanently a shade darker since the day he told me to shoot him if necessary. As if he's constantly fighting off the beast.

  And ever since then, he's been hypersensitive to any kind of stimuli.