BILLY As Ruby moved closer to me, my anger rolled together with everything else I was feeling. Jealousy and possessiveness, just as she’d said, but worse, a fear of rejection was the most prominent. It was the main thing that swam up and blinded me to everything else. That was why I called out to her. To stop her from choosing Jackson. The Alpha. The strongest and best of us. Or who she said she’d actually choose. Darren, the warlock-wolf, who was cool and calm and... a nice guy. I was never going to be the one she’d pick out of the three of us. In fact, I would be the last one she would choose. She didn’t know me. I’d barely spoken to her. But that didn’t mean I was wrong for her, or that I didn’t want her. Because I did want her. Despite her witch blood and the fact that I would hav

