Thinking these things, making up these stories in my mind, was an easy escape for my thoughts and helped to distract me from the annoyance happening right beside me. No, annoyance wasn’t a strong enough word this time. Sienna had failed for a second time, and now Amelia’s influence in Jake’s pack was stronger than ever. I imagined, when Damien would hear about what had happened, if he didn’t already know, that his fondness for her would only grow as well. Everything was backfiring, and it was all Sienna’s fault. Incompetent wretch. “Well, at least she’s not exiled,” Victoria said, after reading Sienna’s texts aloud, in which Sienna told us what happened while also bemoaning her fate. “Tell her to pack a jacket,” I said. “I hope she stays there forever.” Victoria, perhaps sensing my

