Even Jacob's eyebrows rose at the sharpness of Francine's tone.
"Sandy... she's a complication I wish I never had. Sandy was human. Her dad was a wolf, but her mom was human. She didn't inherit the shifter genes, but she grew up in the pack. I was lonely, so damn lonely, Francine. It's no excuse, but I was weak and I slept with her the night of the attack. I was a teenager, I didn't think of the future or what it meant. I left her to go find my brother, that's when Dave helped us and some other pack members escape. But Sandy... a vampire got to her and her dad couldn't protect her," Jacob stared at the floor with glassy eyes as if he was watching a replay of the worst time of his life, and Francine could feel his pain clinging at his heart and tightening his chest, making it feel hard to
