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.

my men, both teams that came to the Council meeting, sync up with Leah’s dear old deadbeat dad, to make

gave

keeping his f**king mo uth sh ut about who him any stock advice and continuing through with

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

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

lands will go into foreclosure. The corporation is in crisis…”

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

really

mismanaged things so horribly. But that’s his problem not hers.

lip. “Dad, we’ll figure it out. It is

won’t. Not

choking on tears through the phone.

better if the mate

d ied,” he says. “But I’m going to see her now. And when I’m gone, that will make sure they can’t

are

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