#Chapter 47 – Home again

“MAMAAAA!” I lurch to my feet out of a straight sleep when I hear my son’s voice calling to me. Edgar next to me shudders awake, though he manages to stay in bed.

“What’s happening?” He murmurs, staring around bleerily.

“They’re back,” I say, pulling a blanket around my shoulders and ducking out the door.

From my vantage on the cabin’s short deck I see three figures walking in from the forest. I squint my eyes, trying to make out details. Disheveled, their t-shirts ripped – mud on their pants and boots – tiny scratches everywhere – and huge smiles on their faces.

I exhale a big breath. They’re okay. They’re happy.

“Boys!” I call, raising a hand to wave to them. At the sound of my voice, the boys start to run to me, though I can tell by their pace that they’re bone tired. I laugh, considering that of course they are after a night running through the woods.

Victor doesn’t pick up the pace, but wanders leisurely behind them, his hands in his pockets. I can see that he is smiling as well.

Ian is the first one up the three steps to the cabin’s porch. He throws his arms around my legs, shortly followed by Alvin, who does the same. “Mama!” Ian says, looking up at me. “It was amaaaaazing!”

I laugh down at them, cossetting their hair, their faces, trying to look at them both at once. “I want to hear all about it!”

“We saw everything, mama!”

“There was a deer!”

“And a lake! A big LAKE all silver in the moonlight!”

I oooh and ahhh as they tell me jumbled details. My eyes follow Victor as he climbs up onto the porch. The boys are still talking as he stops in front of me, leaning against one of the wooden pillars and giving me a smile.

“So, did you have as much fun as they did?” I say, nodding to the boys.

“It was amazing,” he confirms, holding my gaze. “I know they’re going to do their best to tell you every detail but it was…indescribable.”

I smile at him, truly feeling warmth towards this man who has given my children this gift, their first wolf’s moon. “Thank you, Victor. I’m so grateful.”

“I was about to

says, annoyed to have lost my attention.

say, pretending to be confused. “Didn’t you eat any squirrels in

Alvin says, wrinkling his nose in horror. “You thought we were going to

nonchalantly. “That’s what we did on my first

ate ten squirrels!?” Ian joins Alvin in his revulsion, their faces twin mirrors of

say, leaning down close to their

down towards the fire where Betas are already setting up

“The fuzzy way they feel when

his nose in a fair

and boring, you’ve got to add a

you didn’t really eat any squirrels, right?” Victor asks, raising

cast my eyes down like a

away, pressing coffee into my hands and promising scrambled eggs.

is Amelia?” Victor asks a Beta, accepting his own cup of

eventually turned in. I imagine she’ll sleep late,” he says, and I wonder

says, taking a plate of

say, and he looks up

was!” I say, laughing as a Beta hands me a plate

“you mean that you spent all night with Edgar and she hung out by herself, texting all her

my fork, “she didn’t have cell reception out here, so that’s impossible. And two,” I say, not letting him interrupt me as he opens his mouth to comment, “Amelia and I actually had

I can see their plans already forming to copy

Victor as he mops coffee off of

“It sounds like you two are getting along,

of egg. “A good butt really

boys laugh at my joke. I wink at them, glad for my

breakfast, Victor confers with the Betas and I overhear him telling

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