Chapter 35
Jules didn’t have a lot of friends or a large family. The only humans who knew were his mother, his father’s family, Gia, and Brock’s house staff. More importantly he’d never had to tell anyone his secret before. Brock had. Brock had told a previous girlfriend, Stephanie. That later came back to haunt him, but Jules wasn’t thinking about The Human Order right now. He was thinking about a younger Brock describing the way Stephanie had taken a physical and emotional step back from him for weeks after finding out.
Now, as Kaylee climbed the steps of the porch, Jules saw the distance in her eyes and the way she hung back near the steps, near the escape route.
“You saw it,” he said.
She nodded.
“s**t. I wanted to tell you. I didn’t want you to find out this way.”
“Why didn’t yo
