#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 say the same

says, annoyed to have lost my

to be confused. “Didn’t

horror. “You thought we were going to eat

we did on my first night out.

in

say, leaning down close to their faces. “And they were

down towards the fire where Betas

the boys, laughing. “The fuzzy way they feel when they slide

fair impression of Alvin’s face. “You really are

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

didn’t really eat any squirrels,

cast my eyes down like a 40’s movie vixen. “A lady never

help, but the Betas shoo me away, pressing coffee into my hands and promising scrambled eggs. Ignoring

asks a Beta,

stayed up late by the fire, snoozing on and off, but she eventually turned in. I imagine she’ll sleep late,” he says, and

did she do?” Victor says, taking a plate of fruit and starting to dig

say, and he looks up at me with an eyebrow

as a Beta hands me a plate with eggs and

with Edgar and she hung out by herself, texting

with 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 a really nice

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

attention to Victor as he mops coffee off of

says, chuckling. “It sounds like you two are getting along, and

egg. “A good butt really does bond

my joke. I wink at them, glad for my own little

confers with the Betas and I overhear

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