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

They attacked

ie

you do something stu pid, Jess?”

in the eye. Her gaze skits

hand on the

tip over and shatter and

do anything!”

part

fingertips and I feel my spine starting to

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

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

He lets out a low

I’m coherent enough

can think and act rationally, because I’m not good to anyone-myself

are.

don’t want to ki ll one of

not yet.

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