Chapter 89

LEAH

I ordered the back fields mowed after all. The grass will likely stick to feet and shoes and get dragged inside, but there is nothing to be done for it.

We need a place to set up the bars and to move out all the booze. And lest my brother and his packmates fr eak the f* ck out, I thought it better to move their stash rather than pour it

down the drain.

I’m not sure the kitchen staff is up to the task and the wolf I remembered so fondly from my childhood passed away a few years ago, I’d learned. The ‘chef’ is a nineteen year old wolf

with an attitude and penchant for fusion dishes.

I like that he wants to take ownership of the menu. I think he

was expecting me to boss him around. Instead I shook his.

hand. Welcomed him to my pack. And told him to make us

proud.

We’ll see if that results in something amazing or the kind of

sp iteful coup that might ruin this entire party.

This is a country estate, it’s not like Uber eats or Doordash are

driving all the way out here.

“Relax,” Aaron tells me. “Chef Dom is sending trays of food

too.”

is here. Or why he is helping

you feel bad?” I

draws me aside from the flurry of wolves working to clean up the main pack house. We’re outside and he points to a set of benches on the

from the main house.

sit, he says, “Have you checked the

“The library books?”

wry. “Accounting books. The records for Pack

and dealing

lean into the conversation

say, “I’ve been busy with

course I don’t.

lot of mismanagement. Your dad

him to several underground gambling rings

“You’re not serious.”

“I am.”

from the marked account, that was just one misstep among many.” He expels a deep breath.

haven’t been to our corporate headquarters

when my brother last sat on the

sizable?”

have a controlling majority.”

wrench myself away from

when I think I

Again and again

spins me back around.

away from me when we’re

wherever the

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