I dragged in breath through my nose and let it out through my mouth. Just like I'd always practice when I was little. But I hadn't had an episode since when I was little so I had forgotten how excruciatingly suffocating it was to have the four walls of a space closing down on me.
Cold sweat dripped down my back.
Mom would be so disappointed in me. Plus the women at the Silvermoon pack. I could picture Marrissa shaking her head in disapproval.
A Luna have to be levelheaded all the time. No matter the situation, she has to be the bedrock the Alpha and the pack needs to comfort them.
No matter how much I tried to shake off the words, it kept resurfacing in my mind. A reminder of how much of a fool I had been. To swallow words like that without ever questioning them.
" The…next…time…i…", I pant, my voice coming out low between breaths " I-m-meet Marissa, I-i-I'll curse at her. I…fucking—
