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?”

first question made her nervous, this one has her even more unsettled. She bites her lip hard and

twenty-nine years old. And, as far as I know, she’s been alone for at least as long as Leah has lived beneath this

attacked me that fateful

been willing to d ie to ki ll

something stu pid,

the eye. Her gaze

slam my hand

shatter and the

do anything!” she insists.

played a part or she knows who

and I feel

is nowhere she can go or hide where I won’t find her.

it flying into the sideboard. The food and glass and porcelain shatter all over

out a low whistle. “Chef spent hours on that meal.”

body is partially shifted but I’m coherent enough to speak.

out of my system so I can think and act rationally, because I’m not good to

are.

one of my

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