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.”

still don’t know why Aaron is here. Or why he is helping me.

because you feel bad?” I ask. “About my dad?”

pack house. We’re outside and he points to a set of benches on the side of the back

from the main house.

says, “Have you

“The library books?”

“Accounting books. The records for

I’ve been depressed and dealing with some

moment I can lean into the conversation and just

been busy with your baby.” But

course I don’t.

of mismanagement. Your dad was pulling money from

underground gambling rings and even weapons

“You’re not serious.”

“I am.”

deep breath. “You should know that my pack

been to our corporate headquarters in years.

last sat on the

sizable?”

now have a controlling majority.”

away from him.

I think I can start to

Again and again and again.”

grabs my shoulder and spins me back

from me when

“I’ll walk wherever

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