#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.

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

nothing, looking them all over,

and ready for a fight, “to take you in hand, boy. To take the pack in

in a snarl. “I don’t

protest. “What matters is that when 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

in his lap, looking at Victor with steady eyes. Behind him, Rafe smirks. “We’ve come to enact that

to find

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

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

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

the by-laws revised, shouldn’t you, at some point during that time. As it stands, we have every right to be

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

he hadn’t seen coming. But he

asks, acquiescing to the situation, but not

long as it takes,” he

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

moved in, his father and mother comfortably ensconced in an in-law suite on the first floor. Victor had had it built expressly for their visits several years back, everything made specifically to be accessible by someone in a

a guest room upstairs. The guest room furthest from his own room, in fact. He

the pool out back. His father isn’t there – he’s taking a

of his drink.

at the fast change – not even a few days ago, they had had a white Christmas, and now it felt almost

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