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?”

has her even more unsettled. She bites her lip

she’s been alone for at least as long as Leah has lived beneath this roof in

of the wolves. They attacked me that fateful day,

to d ie to ki ll Leah.

do something stu

look me in the eye. Her gaze

slam my hand

and shatter and the dishes

do anything!” she insists.

I think she played a part or

and I feel my spine starting to

the dining room, terrified. But there is nowhere she can go or

sideboard. The food and glass and

a

coherent enough to speak. “Was it you?”

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

are.

to ki ll one of my own packmates, if I

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