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?”

this one has her even more unsettled. She

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

wolves. They attacked me that fateful day,

ie to ki ll Leah.

do something

the eye. Her gaze skits around the

slam my hand on the table.

over and shatter and

do anything!” she insists.

think she played a part or she

fingertips and I feel my spine starting to

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

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

a low whistle.

I’m coherent enough to speak. “Was it

can think and act rationally, because I’m not

are.

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

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