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.”

don’t need

Actually he does.

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

gave

sh ut about who him any stock advice and continuing through with owning up to his own financial failings.

I wouldn’t have been able to send him Regional Council money if he didn’t spend a solid week hounding his daughter to steal from me.

the money was hers, but her ol’ man didn’t know that. If he hadn’t been so desperate in

those funds frozen,” he tells her. “Roberts lands will go into foreclosure. The corporation

coming. It’s why I’ve been buying up Roberts stock

really is ripe

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

“Dad, we’ll figure it out. It

it won’t. Not this time.”

hear him choking on

been better if the mate bond took me when

going to see her now. And when I’m gone, that will make sure they can’t trace anything back to you.”

what are you

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