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.

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

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

been willing to d ie

something

can’t look me in the eye. Her gaze skits around

my hand on the

over and shatter and the dishes jump.

do anything!” she

a part or she knows who

and I feel my spine starting to curve.

runs from the dining room, terrified. But there is nowhere she can

flip the giant table, sending it flying into the sideboard. The food

strolls into the room. He lets out a low whistle. “Chef spent hours

partially shifted but I’m coherent enough to

so I can think and act rationally, because

are.

of my

least not

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