Chapter 28

Tea's POV

I strode away and heard footsteps as Jesse followed me. He was silent for the most part, but there was no denying his presence.

My mind churned as I struggled to come up with a plan as to what I was going to do next.

What was there to do next?

I was stuck living at Jesse's house and was the host to a practically-parasitic wolf who could snatch my body any time she wanted. I was constantly starving as I tried to adapt physically to the wolf within me but didn’t have the money to pay for the food I’d need to keep adapting without Jesse.

Maybe if I could figure out how to control my wolf, I could get away from Jesse after the mating shit was over. Maybe I could learn how to be a lone wolf or something. Jesse's mom had said it wasn't possible, that our wolves would constantly seek each other out, but why would I trust her? She was as much a monster as the rest of them.

The rest of us.

We ran into the animal control guys as we exited th