"Anna."
"Because I'm already thinking it." And now it's spilling out, all the fear I've been holding down under the fighting and the planning, all the two-in-the-morning terror I've never let him see. "I've been thinking it for weeks, if I'm honest, every time you talk about your world, every time I remember that I'm the human, the weak one, the one who can't bond the way your kind bonds, the one the pack will never accept, the one who's a target instead of a bride. And now there's a name and a face and she's beautiful and she's a wolf and she was yours first, and you kept her from me, you managed me, you decided I couldn't handle knowing, and that's the thing that actually scares me, Evan, not her, you, you deciding what I get to know, because that's what people do right before they leav
