Isaac Pov
I woke the next morning feeling reserved, unsure. I had told her so much about me, so much more than I’d ever told anyone else before. Not even Nicole, who I’d grown up with having as my only friend, knew all of the s**t Jason had done to me over the years. She had never understood why I still jumped and did as he said when we were older, when I was bigger and stronger than him. It didn’t matter how big or strong I got, he was embedded in my mind, and he was always taller, always stronger, as if the younger me was all that I could be when he was in my presence. I wished I had killed him that day I told him about the contract. We were outside, and while others could see us, I should have killed him. Nate wouldn’t have understood back then, he would have put me in a cell, the pack
