A cool wet cloth pressed against my forehead, giving me a slight reprieve from the fire burning inside of me. The spasm eased and my body relaxed.
"It hurts," I managed to whisper before gritting my teeth.
"I know, Crys." I felt the smallest touch of his lips on my cheek.
I closed my eyes briefly as another wave of pain spread through my body. It felt like every cell in my body was being torn apart. Tears began to slide down the sides of my face while I tried to ride it out.
"Hang on," Kyle soothed somewhere outside the agony that gripped me like claws right into my heart.
I opened my eyes. It was like looking through amber glasses that changed everything in my eyesight. Despite the heat, my body began to shake. It became so bad that I felt my teeth rattle together as my body shivered.
"I'm so…cold," I murmured, trying to wrap my arms around myself to keep warm.
"Here," Kyle said, and I felt the softness of a blanket wrap around me.
I looked up at him. The amber effect had disappeared from my vision and I stared deep into his familiar gray eyes.
"So…cold," I said, trying to stop myself from shivering.
There was a feeling of being shifted and I felt something wrap around me.
"I've got you. I'm here." His words soothed me through the haze of change that had gripped every part of my body.
My body continued to shake. It was too much. The darkness beckoned to me and I gave in, needing the pain to stop.
I drifted in and out. When I did regain consciousness, the pain was so bad it felt like someone was tearing my body apart limb by limb.
"Please, make it stop," I gasped.
"Hang in there. We're going to give you something to try and ease the pain."
The shivering had stopped and my body was no longer on fire, but the pain was more intense than before.
"Please," I whimpered, needing it to end. I gripped his hand in mine.
"Curtis," Kyle called out, and I heard hurried footsteps.
"I got it," Curtis said, his eyes filled with concern.
He got out a syringe and inserted it into my skin. A coolness spread from the needle point into the rest of my body. There was a sound of something beeping in the background but I couldn't concentrate on it.
My body began to relax as the liquid spread through my body with every pump of my heart. I closed my eyes briefly, feeling exhausted but relieved the pain was easing.
"It's working," Curtis said.
"Thank God," Kyle said. He enclosed my hand in his and kissed it.
I had no idea what they had given me and I didn't care. The only thing that mattered was that it had helped. My body was tired. It took so much strength to stay awake. My eyelids grew heavy, and then they closed.
"Sleep, Crys," Kyle murmured beside me while his hand gently caressed my cheek.
The sound of his voice comforted me as I drifted off to sleep.
The next time I woke up, I felt weak and tired. The sound of a beeping noise pulled my attention to my surroundings. I wasn't in Kyle's room anymore. The sterile white walls revealed I was in medical.
When had they moved me here? And why?
It wasn't normal for female werewolves to go through their change in a hospital environment. Years of trying to ease the pain they experienced had ended with no way of easing the process. But even through my foggy thoughts, I remembered Curtis giving me something that had helped.
