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.

been alone for at

wolves. They attacked

ie to ki ll

do something

can’t look me in the eye. Her

hand on the table.

tip over and shatter and

didn’t do anything!”

part or she

I feel my spine starting

the dining room, terrified. But there is nowhere she can go or hide where I won’t find

into the sideboard. The food and glass and porcelain shatter all over the

lets out a low whistle. “Chef spent hours on that meal.”

coherent enough to

rage out of my system so I can think and act rationally, because I’m

are.

to ki ll one of my own packmates, if I

least not

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