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?”

even

for at least as long as Leah has lived beneath

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

willing to d ie to ki ll Leah.

do something stu pid, Jess?”

look me in the eye. Her

my hand on the table.

shatter and

do anything!” she insists.

a part

claws extend through my fingertips and I feel

terrified. But there is nowhere she can

flying into the sideboard. The food and glass and porcelain shatter

lets out a

but I’m coherent enough to speak.

out of my system so I can think and act rationally, because I’m not good to anyone-myself included-with my emotions

are.

one of my own packmates, if I can help it.

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