Chapter Thirty-Nine - Jessica

In my entire life, I’d never felt anything like this. The pain in my stomach was excruciating. It felt like a mixture of period cramps and what I assumed contractions felt like. It twisted and turned my insides with a viselike grip. Then the hunger…I couldn’t explain it. I felt so hungry. You know that expression, I could eat a horse? I literally, could have eaten a horse. I scooted my chair underneath the dining room table with the rest of the pack. Dad sat across from me, his steady gaze on my face like I might break at any moment. I didn’t blame him. I was his only family. His child. His child whom he didn’t know could turn into a wolf. Jacob slapped a juicy steak onto my plate and my mouth watered. I’d never been a carnivore before but now, I felt like I could have competed in an eating contest with a T-rex. “There. A steak,” Jacob said with a smug smile. I grabbed my steak knife and took a giant bite. The taste soothed a part of me that I didn’t know existed. “Gosh, this is