#Chapter 106 – Training Camp

“Is Amelia going to be there?” Alvin asks as Evelyn loads a cooler full of snacks into the back of the hummer.

“What?” Evelyn says, confused. “No. Why would Amelia be there?”

Ian shrugs. “She said she’s gonna ruin our lives. She didn’t say when. She could be anywhere.”

Evelyn shakes her head and goes to kneel next to her boys, concerned. She really wishes that they hadn’t been privy to that conversation, but she can’t help it now.

“You boys don’t need to think about that,” she says. “Amelia was just mad – she didn’t mean it. And your daddy and I can protect you. Plus! We’re going to a military Beta base!” she says, very cheerful. “There are lots of Betas there, all sworn to protect you. I promise, you’ll be fine.”

The boys nod, encouraged, and climb into the back of the car.

Victor is cheerful as he comes down the driveway, dressed not in a suit but in tactical black. Evelyn smirks, thinking that the last time she saw him dressed like this was during her rescue from her father’s house. When she’d had a chance to get up-close and personal with that tactical gear, pressed into the little hideaway in her closet.

She glances down at herself, her jeans and blue cardigan. “Am I…underdressed? Do I need something in a camo print?”

He laughs, considering her. “No, civilian. You’re fine.”

“I want camo print!” Ian shouts from the back of the car.

Victor smirks and gives Evelyn a false look of derision. “Now you’ve got them started.”

She laughs. “You’re the one dressed like a GI Joe.”

“Touche!” he says, swinging him into the car. “Everyone buckled up?” When he hears three assenting answers, Victor swings the car out of the driveway and onto the open road. To more hummers full of Betas follow.

eyes had welled up at the idea – and it’s time for the boys to see the more military aspects of the pack. One day it

and the woods in which they had gone camping, out to a flat plane of earth where it looked like

“Oh my god, Victor,” she says, truly awed.

an impressive space. They pull through a tall metal gate topped with barbed wire and drive through what seems like a small city’s worth of cinder-block buildings topped with corrugated tin roofs. “These are the sleeping units and mess halls,” Victor murmurs, navigating carefully through groups of troupes that travel

buildings are everything his Betas need to train – fields dedicated to target practice, a small set of woods in which they will run tactical missions. And beyond that, hangers which house his small air force

a…” Evelyn leans forward, squinting to see

laughs. “What else

“You have a helicopter?”

“I

shakes her head at him, but turns towards the back seat when she hears Ian shuffle close to Alvin to whisper. “Three for me and three for you,” he hisses. Evelyn laughs as Alvin

one?” she asks. Ian, equally serious, shakes

to the front of the car as Victor pulls into a spot by the nicest building in the area, made of bricks instead of cinder block. “What’s this?” she asks, unbuckling

and stepping out. “With a little sleep space, in case

each help the kids down from the back of the car and take them by the hand, leading them into the office. Ian and Alvin barely blink, looking around at everything, trying to take it

it here,”

good,” Alvin adds

think it’s kind of…bland. Needs some flowers. Or colorful paint.”

don’t get it mom.” She laughs again and pulls him through the door to

says, looking around as she puts her bag down on a metal chair by the door. The room is very small, with a big metal desk at the center of it. In a corner is a single bed, sparsely dressed with a green wool blanket and a single pillow. Behind

walls of the room, Evelyn is surprised to see, is actually a sliding glass door that opens into a grassy area, with a firepit sunk into the ground. She notes a

She c***s her head to the side, considering this office’s contrast with Victor’s modern home, all glass windows and

love it here, mom,” he says, very seriously. “I’m never

and takes her hand. “We can stay for a little while,” he says, and then

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