Chapter 94 

Everly POV 

Four Days Later

We held the funerals yesterday, and today I couldn’t cope with work, so I started the mural at the homeless shelter. I designed the sign and sent it off last night to my manufacturer. So when I walked into work to find everything handled and for once the sky showed no sign of rain, I got a head start on the mural on either side of the door leading into the old school

I had two days until the council meeting, and two days after that, I had the challenge for my father’s pack. I was a little nervous about exactly what it was I was getting myself into with his pack, especially if it was bankrupt like Ava believed. Yet if I could restore a hotel to its former glory, I had no doubts I could dig them out of the hole my father dug.

Ici dug.

I forgot how much I enjoy drawing and painting, though the old rendered brickwork was making it a bitch t o stencil out the design with my paintbrush. I had done the background white like a canvas, though . standing on a ladder while it was windy wasn’t ideal. Hearing a car pull up along the road behind me, I glance over my shoulder to see Valen’s car. He hops put, walking over to me.

“Everly, the wind is hectic today. Get down before you fall off,Valen scolds, coming over and holding the ladder. I shake my head but climb down, unclipping the harness as I reach each step on the ladder.

I have a harness,I tell him, but he shakes his head

“Harness wont do much if that unhooks from up top. Its only hooked to the guttering. Thats not the sturdiest thing, especially those old crumbling ones. It would be best if you had told me you were doing such a gigantic mural; I would have had a cherry picker brought over. Dont use the ladder. I will get one sent over tomorrow,Valen scolds, and I shake my head.

He had a point, though, and the site supervisor also gave me a lecture about the same thing, making me wonder if he called Valen

The site supervisor called you, didnt he?I tell Valen, and he smirks.

Of course,he says, and I roll my eyes.

I thought you had your meeting today with your father over pack business?” His eyes darken slightly, and he sighs

I sent my accountant instead,” he says while bending down to help pick up my supplies. I pack them into a box and put them in the cleaning closet just inside the school doors

You can‘t just avoid your father,I tell him, following him out to his car

“Unless it has something to do about Valarian, I dont want to hear it,Valen growls, opening the driver’s door.

“Valen, he is your father, and he is a wonderful dad,I tell him

He lied to me,” Valen states. I sigh, climbing into the car

“Your mother wouldn’t want you to toss your father away. He fucked up, but he is trying to make up for it. The petition got pushed through by him. He drops everything he is doing whenever we need his help with Valarian.” I tell him, and he starts the car, nodding his head.

We head to school to pick Valarian up. When the bell rang, he came running out excitedly, jumping up and down to show the painting he had done.

“Wow!” Valen says, looking at it. Casey came over to show us her painting, which was covered with glitter and swirling scribble Valerian, however, was all straight lines of paint that looked like he used a ruler to make sure he didnt go out of the lines, I smiled down at him, and he grabbed his father’s hand as we crossed the road to the car. Once in the car, we headed home while listening to the radio talking about the upcoming council meeting. My attention turned to the news reporter as her nasally voice spoke about an upcoming war

“It appears war is brewing between Alpha Nixon and Alpha Valen. Alpha Nixon was spotted today leaving the council chambers in a rage after learning Alpha Valen’s mate, Everly Summer’s, the infamous disgraced daughter of Alpha John from Shadow Pack, petitioned to have the laws involving the unfair treatment of rogues changed. Alpha Nixon refused to speak to the media today after he was spotted in a n argument with Alpha John just in the front of the council chambers before reversing into Alpha John’s car. It appears tensions among the packs are high, and in the next few weeks, we will either see change within the city or war between packs,” Valen turns the radio off, glancing at me, and I sigh.

Great, the media was going to blow this right up, and if there wasn’t a war, they would ensure one starts with the hysteria they would cause. *

“Would the City really go to war over mum’s petition?Valarian asks, and Valen glances in the mirror at

him.

Greed and entitlement start a

nothing. They aren‘t even allowed to own housing?”

is why your mother is petitioning to

when they already have nothing. What‘s left to

left, and people like Nixon think they deserve to play God and dictate how people should live and what

your dad on his side?”

is on the wrong

I look at him

his character,

his daughter?”

mother. I am my own person, just like you are your

be like you or dad when I am older?”

us. One day be a better Alpha than

I don’t want to

find someone else

want to be Luna like

be Luna

cool, no offense, mum. I think I will stick with Alpha Valarian,” Valarian

The Luna is more important than

that so **

keeps the packs in line, the luna keep the Alpha in line,” Valarian shrugs,

son just de manned me,

I tell him, patting Valen‘s shoulder while shaking

had a chat. Kalen was trying, but Valen had to put in some effort on his end, Dinner was awkward, and Valen and Kalen only spoke about Valarian until Kalen helped Valen do the dishes while I sat on the couch

Kalen also said he should head home since it was a school night.

her frantic voice, I knew instantly something was wrong and the sirens in the background made my heart thump in my chest. All the air was sucked from my lungs

sobbed into the

is it?”

hear me?” she

“Zoe?”

gone!” she sobbed into

“What’s gone?”

so fast. You need to get here,” she cried before the phone cut out. I tried calling her number again, but all I

Valen POV

in the elevator with my father. “So, where are you heading off to?” he asked. Thanks to Everly, it was bad enough that I had to sit through an awkward dinner.

father‘s relationship. Yet I couldn‘t complain to Everly about my problem, so

see

jeweler?” he asked, and I

Are you proposing to Everly?”

else would I be going to see him?”

of my lips. I knew if he had his way, I would have married her the day I met her. “So

swallows.

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