Chapter 61

★JAROD'S POV★

I watched as Annabelle stormed into the room. She went to sit down and pulled her head into her arms, screaming to her heart's content. Then, she sat upright and looked at me as if realizing I was in the room. She had been worrying me for weeks, her attitude becoming unstable, as if her powers were eating her from the inside. Yet, she wouldn’t talk to me.

Since I lost my pack and she saved me from dying, my words did not have much effect on her anymore. I was only living under her mercy. The only place I knew I controlled her was in bed. I was the master in that area.

“Are you okay?” I asked her when it looked like we would only continue staring at each other.

“Yes.”

“You look pale and angry,” I told her.

She huffed, stood up, paced, then went back to her seat. She was bothered, and with the look she was giving me, I think she was contemplating whether to tell me what the real problem is or not.

“Talk to me,” I encouraged her.

“You know we have Demetrius’s kids in our po