Chapter 91

I spend the hour before the start of the ceremony walking the main pack’s grounds.

There are so many buildings in need of updating and repair. There are resources that we need to invest in order to

structure Pack Roberts for future generations.

A plan begins to take shape.

I might not live long enough to fulfill it but…

My brother meets me at the schoolhouse. It’s a single room building. Seeing it now with the eyes of an adult, I wonder at how small the structure is and how antiquated.

“You’d think we were Amish,” I mumble.

He laughs.

The door is locked but he whips out a set of keys and lets us in. The room is all whi te and there are computers along one wall. Maps on the other, chalkboards and a desk at the front.

“Is Mrs. McHenry still teaching?” I ask.

“She is.”

“How old is she?”

“200?”

I chuckle. “No seriously.”

her

80.”

on relentlessly. I feel a gush of nostalgia for the little girl I was and all the

retire,” I say to

her pack and her community.” Liam shrugs. “She’ll be present tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins, then his playful mood changes. “Just don’t make too many changes all

It’s a warning.

ready,” I tell my brother.

waiting for him,

the mansion. It’s tasteful. The strings of a four-piece quartet drift to me.

get

orchestra is no doubt Aaron’s doing. He has a set of wolves that perform

would you look at that,

winks at

for this event, also from Aaron’s pack, offers a glass of Champagne. I accept the flute and then set it back down on his tray.

Just not in the

isn’t good for the

whisper

the scheme of things. But it would be so nice to

black pantsuit paired

watch. In the trunk of belongings that Aaron sent over, the giant diamond ring was also

helping me tonight, and I won’t resent his presence since it reinforces the ‘peace’ but our marriage is

I can’t go back

be giving

brother. And

close. He’s probably worried I’ll faint or something, and I make sure to pause intermittently to eat and

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