#Chapter 99 – Unexpected Guests

The next morning, Victor wakes early, going to his office to begin working through his plans for the future. Everything is different, now, without a Luna by his side to secure his position. He has heirs, yes, but the community values family. Indeed, he has built much of his political stance on family values.

Now that he has rejected his Luna, there is going to be blowback. He needs a plan.

Beta Stephen brings him a cup of coffee and he is just about to take a sip when the doorbell rings. Victor frowns at Stephen and c***s his head, a silent question.

Stephen just shrugs at him. “I don’t know, sir. You don’t have any appointments.”

“Perhaps it’s just Burton,” Victor says, straightening his suit coat. It’s a little early for a full suit, he knows, but he feels better when he’s ready for anything.

“I’ll check, sir,” Stephen says, heading out of the room.

Victor sips his coffee and turns to his computer, scanning his calendars and email inbox, one ear cast towards the front door for any hint of who has come to visit.

He goes still at the first hint of voices. Old voices, familiar ones.

s**t.

He stands straight and stares at the door of his office, his eyes narrowing as someone walks in the door frame.

“Mom?” Victor says, frowning. “What are you doing here?”

“I’m afraid it’s not just me, darling,” she says softly, lowering the small pink suitcase she carries to the ground.

Victor opens his mouth to enquire, but closes it quickly when his father rolls into sight, followed quickly by Rafe and…someone new.

stands a beautiful woman – tall, blonde, leggy, wearing heels so high her ankles seem to tremble.

says nothing, looking them all over,

serious and ready for a fight, “to take you in

in a

you took the pack at such an early age, a clause was built into the contract suggesting that if you hit times of crisis – and rejecting a well-loved and well-respected Luna certainly falls under the category of a crisis – then senior members of

old man folds his hands in his lap, looking at Victor with steady eyes.

his mind racing, trying to find a

mother says, not unkindly. Victor shifts his gaze to her. Would she betray

Victor’s mother slowly shakes her head. “No, darling.

pup, whose missteps could lead to disaster – not for someone who has capably led the pack for

the by-laws revised, shouldn’t you, at some point during that

you reject it,” his mother says softly, almost apologetically, “it opens the opportunity

spread there. God damnit. Another move he hadn’t seen coming. But he could get

how long will you be staying?” Victor asks, acquiescing to the situation, but not happy

it takes,” he hears his father

he hears Beta Stephen’s voice. The Beta is standing in the doorway behind his family, overloaded with suitcases. “Where do you want

comfortably ensconced in an in-law suite on the first floor. Victor had had it built expressly for their visits several

furthest from his own room, in fact. He

of his house, looking over the scene at the pool out back. His father isn’t there

taking a sip of his drink.

snap has continued. He blinks, wondering at the fast change – not even a few days ago, they had had a white Christmas, and

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