# Chapter 16 – Vanessa's POV: Unwanted Visitor
I kept staring at my hands.
They looked normal enough. But I remembered claws. I remembered the burn in my chest when that white light exploded out of me in the forest.
Was any of it real? Or was I just losing my mind?
I flexed my fingers. Nothing happened. Just regular hands attached to regular arms. But that power I felt...
My stomach twisted when I thought about Alexander. How disgusted he looked when he found out I couldn't shift. The divorce papers he threw at my feet. My sisters laughing while my world fell apart.
*Worthless. Broken. Not a real wolf.*
That's what they called me. And I believed them.
But maybe they were wrong.
I tried to stand but got dizzy. Had to grab the bed to keep from falling. My body still felt weak from whatever happened in the woods.
I needed to get out of here. But Ryder's words kept playing in my head about the rogues still being out there. About his pack not trusting strangers.
I was trapped.
