Grace of a Wolf by Lenaleia

Chapter 169

Chapter 169: Grace: Everything Goes Wrong

It takes us about two and a half hours to go fifteen miles.

The car seat started the entire fiasco.

Everything was going fine. We even snuck Sadie into the store under the guise of a service dog, even though I’m pretty sure I’m going to hell for doing so. But come on. It isn’t like we could just leave her in the truck, and the camper’s hot without the air conditioning running.

Granted... they did make us buy a leash first, and Caine seemed abnormally interested in how easy it is to pose as a service dog, but those aren’t the type of details to derail our trip.

It all started when Caine finagled the oversized box into our cart and we made the mistake of thinking we were done. I very clearly recall saying, "Well, the hard part’s over," because choosing one was a lot harder than I thought.

Seriously, why are there so many types of car seats?

But I digress.

Anyway—we thought we were done.

Hah.

Bun had other plans. Ron calls it an "epic blowout", I call it "sensory trauma". (For me—not her.) She thought the entire situation was hilarious. We unanimously disagreed.

Caine was forced to run back to the camper for the supplies necessary to deal with the situation.

Of course, things couldn’t end there. Oh, no. That’d be too easy.

As soon as we made it to the long line of self-checkout stations, Jer had to pee, this time declaring his entire brain was floating in it and he would burst like a bomb.

Well, guess what?

You get a lot of looks when you have a kid shouting about being a bomb. I’m half-convinced the cops were called.

Not to mention, we just came from the bathrooms. But it was fine. Lesson learned: never assume kids know if they need to use the restroom.

both while Caine and I checked out. Sara insisted she didn’t need to go at

What happened next?

Ah, yes.

as it sounds. We spent another thirty minutes in the heat trying to get it installed without being slightly tilted to the right, before Caine reluctantly agreed

minutes to

Five minutes.

sweating for thirty, trying to fight the truck and wondering if we needed a different

highway, when we thought we were free and clear, Sara was hungry. So hungry she became what the boys

then she desperately needed to

giant truck stop for gas station pizza, snacks, and yet another

the horror doesn’t

had another epic blowout,

she threw

Everywhere.

did we give up? No. Caine insisted everything was fine, even though up to that point it was an entire dumpster fire. Maybe two dumpster fires. Andrew, the

Silly me.

I believed him.

And now?

miles from where we started... and we have

Caine could pull onto, so at

the children in

are three adults staring at the offending truck tire that’s become

Lyre have triple-A?" Andrew asks, finally breaking our

but...

nose with a long sigh. "Grace, let’s get the camper settled for the day. We’ll have

as if to emphasize

to us before the end of business today,

his heel and stride back to

adapted seamlessly into our strange little group. He’s been staying in the background, something he’s probably used to

hasn’t done a single shady thing. Okay—unless you count the

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