MONSTERS

JAKE

Anna had detailed more encounters than I could count.

I knew she needed to talk to someone, so I held in my anger with her father and held her for the entire night until she finally fell asleep in my arms after crying her eyes out. She needed me right now.

Staring out the window into the forest, I wondered why the gods would do something so horrendous to Anna. She had gone through so much fucking torture all by herself because she thought it was normal.

It didn’t make sense, and it wasn’t fair to her.

At one a.m., I heard the guys walk into the pack house. Asher growled about something having to do with Anna’s ex-boyfriend, then barreled up the stairs and down the hallway. I gently rubbed Anna’s head and closed my eyes, wondering why we hadn’t seen this before.

We had spent so much time with Sina as children and teenagers. How could we have fucking missed that she was being abused at her own house by men thirty or more years older than her? Why hadn’t we seen it? We were her fuck