Chapter 37

Jessica pales.

She’s like a fawn. Her eyes dart around nervously, but there is nowhere to go.

“I asked you a question.”

She licks her lips to moisten them. It’s one of her nervous habits. “I, uh, just meant that they didn’t stand a chance against us.

I look at her as if seeing her for the first time. It’s true she’s always underfoot and I’m as familiar with her as I am with myself.

But I don’t know that I’ve really seen her.

Not in a very long time.

“Are you happy, Jess?”

If my first question made her nervous, this one has her even more unsettled. She bites her lip hard and lowers her gaze.

I know, she’s been alone for at least as long as Leah has lived beneath this roof

think of the wolves. They attacked me that fateful day,

willing to d ie to ki ll Leah.

you do something stu

me in the eye. Her gaze skits around the room.

hand on the

glasses tip over and shatter and

anything!” she insists.

played a part

extend through my fingertips and I feel my spine starting to curve. “Get out!”

But there is nowhere she can go

sideboard. The food and glass

room. He lets out a low

body is partially shifted but I’m coherent enough

so I can think and

are.

I really don’t want to ki ll one of my own packmates, if I

not yet.

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