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Explosives
I couldn’t remember anyone ever telling me that bluntly how they felt about me. It was obvious that Verina Crow and the Parker pack hated me. That was fine. They were my sworn enemies. I’ve had incidents with other kids at school before, too. There were girls I wasn’t so fond of who didn’t exactly find me to be the most pleasant person in the world. This was different. This was someone who was supposed to be a member of my pack--at least in theory--someone who was supposed to be loyal to me and do whatever needed to be done to preserve the pack telling me, point blank, to my face, that she hated me.
I almost wanted to laugh.
But Sam didn’t think it was funny. “You don’t mean that, Starla,” he said, taking a few steps back into the room, toward her. “Really, you shouldn’t joke around about stuff like th
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