Chapter 101

I debate carrying the books back to my room. Given that I broke the door handle, there isn’t a way for me to close and lock it for privacy. Not that a locked door is all that much of a deterrent. A wolf could easily break one down-as Aaron has done on more than one occasion-and if I could break in….

Yeah, the locked door probably isn’t stopping anybody.

My best bet is to grab whatever information is available and

then return to my room or to have Adam transfer the security.

information to the lab to me.

I make a mental note to require him to do just that.

As Alpha, there shouldn’t be a single inch of territory on these

lands that is denied to me.

I grab the first book and flip through the pages. It’s Hemingway. And one of my father’s favorites. I hold the book. by each cover and fan the pages upside down. An envelope drops out.

Happy 13th Birthday Leah.

It’s the same with the next book, a collection of poems by Walt

Whitmann.

Birthday Leah.

after that. And after that.

One for each year I’ve been

on the shelf. The one set alone that

tomes of classic

book. The

inside. Just a hastily written letter that

last note my father had ever written.

his deathnote to me.

hair that’s tied with a pink. bow. It’s mine. From when I

letter and the soft lock of hair at

pants and pull my blouse over to cover them. I want to rush back to my room, slam the door and read each word my father left for me.

hours and I’m not the most stoic of individuals. Chances are I’ll be bawling my eyes out the minute I open one of these.

are a couple hundred

to delay, but I have to head

reach the bottom of the stairs, Aaron is

brows draw together.

fine,” I tell

nods and doesn’t ask questions.

are a few other

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