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With that ominous statement, his striking features began to contort and shift in an almost hideous manner that had Serena’s instincts screaming at her to shrink back. Yet, she remained rooted in place, utterly transfixed as she watched her husband's achingly familiar visage melt and reshape itself into something else entirely.

The sharp planes of his strong jaws seemed to protrude and elongate and his full lips pulled back to reveal a set of curved, wickedly elongated canines.

Thick ropes of dense, obsidian fur erupted along the column of his neck and across his broad brow, framing his face in a wild mane of darkness.

Serena felt her breath catch in her throat as a pair of large, pointed ears emerged from the mass of rippling black fur atop his head.

His striking amber eyes were swallowed by a searing golden blaze that seemed to glow with an otherworldly inner light.

The bones of his face seemed to crack and reform, reshaping themselves into a more feral structure.

Serena willed he