Chapter 0074

That night, my cold had healed enough that I could finally be reunited with Elva. I ran to her, and she ran to me. When she came close, I scooped her up into my arms and held her. Her arms came around my

neck and she held me right back.

“I missed you, Elva. So much.”

“I missed you, Mommy.

Mark and the nanny eventually joined us and I thanked them both profusely for watching my daughter.

Thank you!” Elva said. “Thanks, Uncle Mark!”

I blinked.

Uncle Mark?

I looked at him and he looked embarrassed.

“I didn’t teach her that, I swear. She started doing it all on her own.”

I had been surprised, but I supposed I shouldn’t have been. After all, it had been a similar sequence of

events that had led Elva to calling Anna, Auntie Anna.

“Don’t worry,” I told him. “Elva has a mind of her own about some things.”

Mark seemed relieved.

Elva said. “Are we going

to

personally invited Miss Elva,” he

inner wolf so couldn’t speak to the wolves like

a wolf was growing annoyed and

Mark said. “He’s asked me to relay

Elva have

to meet the

Of that, I was certain.

we would be safe.

“We’ll go and

“Yay!” Elva cheered.

Nicholas’s reassurances, my nerves continued to be heightened as I carried Elva out past the gardens and into the

“Down, please,” Elva said.

don’t run off. We have to

want to hold hands.” She stubbornly crossed

“Elva,” I said, stern.

She mirrored

want to go back inside,

“No.” She pouted now.

waggled my fingers. She sighed dramatically but finally took

walked across

their assigned wolf as they approached. I was

hand.

sitting politely on the grass. It watched us approach, then tilted

curiously.

Mister Wolf!” Elva

back at a

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