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

because you feel bad?” I ask. “About

We’re outside and he points to a set of benches on

from the main house.

sit, he says, “Have

“The library books?”

“Accounting books. The records for Pack Roberts and their

depressed and

moment I can lean into the conversation and just

out and say, “I’ve been busy with your baby.”

course I don’t.

for a long time. There has been a lot of mismanagement. Your dad was pulling money from the company

to several underground gambling rings and even weapons trafficking.”

“You’re not serious.”

“I am.”

marked account, that was just one misstep among many.” He expels a deep breath. “You should know that my pack has bought up a sizable

our corporate headquarters in

last sat on the

sizable?”

have a controlling

gasp. I wrench myself away from

with you. Just when I think I can start to

something awful. Again and again and

and spins me back around.

away from me

back. “I’ll walk wherever the f**k I want, whenever

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