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

Actually he does.

up with Leah’s dear old deadbeat

gave

about who him any stock advice and continuing through with owning up to his

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

she wasn’t stealing and the 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 been able to take

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

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

dad’s pack really is ripe

horribly. But

lip. “Dad, we’ll figure it out.

won’t. Not this time.”

choking on tears through the phone.

better if the mate bond took me

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

are

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