#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.”

was

says, annoyed to have lost my attention. “Can we have breakfast?

to be confused. “Didn’t you

wrinkling his nose in horror. “You thought we were going

nonchalantly. “That’s what we did on my first night out. I must have had eight,

squirrels!?” Ian joins Alvin in his revulsion, their faces

down close to

The boys say, pushing away from me and running down towards

laughing. “The fuzzy way they feel when they slide down your

with me, but scrunches his nose in a fair impression of

add a

you didn’t really eat any squirrels,

eyes down like a 40’s movie vixen.

promising scrambled eggs. Ignoring the guilt, I let them pamper me a little, snuggling down

a Beta, accepting his own cup

turned in. I imagine

taking a plate

he looks up at me with an eyebrow

hands me a plate with eggs and toast. I

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

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

already forming to copy him, spitting out their own

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

you two are getting along, and

full of egg. “A good

me, but the boys laugh at my

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

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