There is no one to blame, she told herself. She repeated it like a mantra.
That, too, brought problems. Without someone to blame, Julie found that her mood had wildly changed. She had been consumed by anger, lashing out often and assuming that her enemy was Tom Buckner and any of the other Shifters.
After thinking on it, she realized that she only had one enemy: herself. So with that known, she did her best to just…
Let things go, Jules. Don’t blame anyone else. Don’t blame yourself. Realize that life happens, and what happened… Well, it happened, and there was nothing you could have done to stop it.
They were sobering thoughts, and after being angry for so long, she found that her new mood was unexpected. It had been a gradual transition: the night after Jim Ortega had left he
