Chapter 38

Ryan

A month later

“I can’t keep lying to your woman and saying you aren’t here, man. She is heavily pregnant. You know that werewolves are only pregnant for two months, right? Don’t you want to be there for the birth of your child?”

“Of course I do!” I snap at Jackson. I haven’t had blood since the last time I fed from Sally’s neck, and it’s making me moody. And not seeing her is making everything worse. “But I can’t! I’m apparently dangerous, and Sally is better off without me.”

“Geez...” Jackson sighs and walks over to sit beside me on the large couch. “Tell me how the two of you broke up again? Did she really call you dangerous? Because, in my eyes, you’ve been nothing but a leashed puppy around her.”

I growl at him. “She doesn’t have me on a leash!”

“She does,” Jackson laughs. “And I love it. The most powerful hybrid the world has seen and so enamored by a girl he can’t stop thinking about her.”

“But I’m not right for her,” I stare down at the ground as I say that, fighting to ke