Chapter 29

Before she can answer, her phone starts ringing again. “Da mn it. If that’s Adam again…”

“It’s not him.”

She holds up the phone so I can see it. She swipes to answer.

“Dad?” she says.

“Leeeah.” His voice is muffled and slurred.

He’s drunk.

For wolves, that is an almost impossible feat.

Our metabolisms burn too high for something like alcohol to take root in our systems. If Leah’s dad is this messed up, he must’ve gone on a real bender.

“Sorry f-for what I did.”

you don’t need to apologize.”

Actually he does.

sync up with Leah’s dear old deadbeat dad, to make sure he knew to make

gave

uth sh ut about who him any stock advice and continuing through

Council money if he didn’t spend a solid week hounding his daughter to

ol’ man didn’t know that. If he hadn’t been so desperate in the first place, my plan never would have been able

frozen,” he tells her. “Roberts lands will go into

why I’ve been buying up Roberts stock and the tax

really is ripe

that he mismanaged things so horribly. But that’s his problem

figure it out. It is

it won’t. Not

choking on tears through the phone.

better if the mate bond took me when your

see her now. And when I’m

Dad, what are you saying?”

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