Jessica and I had been texting back and forth quite a bit and we were becoming fast friends. We had dinner at the café on pack lands last time I visited. She was a bastion of useful information about the werewolf way of life, expectations, the role of a Luna, all of it. What I most appreciated was her honesty. Where Xavier seemed to hold back details, Jessica would share everything. Some people seemed afraid to answer my questions because of my position in the pack, or maybe because Xavier was their Alpha, but that did not stop Jessica. As an only child, I couldn’t fully appreciate the bond of siblings, but I was a big fan of what I had witnessed between the two of them, and I was both excited and nervous to meet the rest of his family.
After Xavier told me that the pack was insecure beca
