#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.”

and shrugs. “I was about

to have lost my attention. “Can we have

to be confused. “Didn’t you eat any

horror. “You thought we were going

we did on my first night out. I must have

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

to

down towards the fire where

their tails!” I call after the boys, laughing. “The fuzzy way they feel when they slide down your

his nose in a fair

boring, you’ve got to add a little spice when you can.” I start down towards the

any squirrels,

a

Betas shoo me away, pressing coffee into my hands and promising scrambled eggs. Ignoring the guilt, I let them pamper me a little, snuggling down into my chair and enjoying

Amelia?” Victor asks a Beta, accepting his

turned in. I imagine she’ll sleep late,”

taking a plate of fruit and

say, and he looks

say, laughing as a Beta hands me a plate

night with Edgar and she hung out by herself, texting all her diva

with my fork, “she didn’t have cell reception out here, so that’s impossible. And two,” I say, not letting him interrupt me

an old-fashioned sitcom spit-take. The boys laugh with delight at the sight and I can see their plans already forming to copy him, spitting out their own drinks. I narrow my eyes at them, pointing my fork at them too. They notice and nod, their plans successfully

Victor as he mops coffee off of his already-filthy shirt. “She brought it up. She has

like you two are getting along, and that’s all that really

say, my mouth full of egg. “A good butt really

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

we finish up breakfast, Victor confers with the Betas and I overhear

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