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.”

“Dad, you don’t

Actually he does.

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

gave

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

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.

he hadn’t been

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

this coming. It’s why I’ve been buying

pack really is ripe

mismanaged things so horribly. But that’s his

we’ll figure it out. It is going

it won’t. Not

him choking on tears through the phone.

mate

when I’m gone,

what are you saying?”

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