She didn’t know what to say. She didn’t argue with him though, worried about angering him. She just hoped he understands her position..and perhaps her ‘heat’ was getting to her.
(Oooh or better yet, perhaps she’s ‘sick’ because her mother was a werewolf, but her father never knew that, and so as she was born, and sick (never knew how to transform) her human side started to fight against her werewolf genes, sorta ‘attacking’ them and perhaps Lyall is her answer?)