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.”

know why Aaron is here. Or why

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

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 side of the

from the

says, “Have you checked the books yet?”

“The library books?”

books. The records for Pack

been depressed and

I can lean into the

busy with your baby.”

course I don’t.

long time. There has been a lot of mismanagement. Your dad was pulling money

underground gambling rings

“You’re not serious.”

“I am.”

expels a deep breath. “You should

been to our corporate headquarters in

my brother last sat on the board. “How

sizable?”

have a controlling

away

think I can start to trust

something awful. Again and again and

my shoulder and spins me back around. “Don’t you

from me when

“I’ll walk wherever the f**k I

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