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 least as long as Leah has lived beneath

think of the wolves. They attacked

to d ie to ki ll

something stu pid, Jess?”

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

my hand on the table.

glasses tip over and shatter and the dishes jump.

anything!” she

I think she played a part or she

claws extend through my fingertips and I feel my

there is nowhere she can go or hide where I

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

room. He lets out a low

partially shifted but I’m coherent enough to speak. “Was

can think and act rationally, because

are.

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

not yet.

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