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 meet

to

invited Miss Elva,”

I didn’t have an inner wolf so couldn’t speak to the wolves

limited warning if a wolf was

“He’s asked me to relay to you that

Elva have

to meet the

wouldn’t purposefully endanger Elva. Of that, I was certain. If he said we would be safe,

we would be safe.

I told her. “We’ll go and meet the wolves tomorrow.”

“Yay!” Elva cheered.

to be heightened as I carried Elva out past the gardens and into the grassy fields beyond, where the wolves

“Down, please,” Elva said.

down. “Now don’t run off. We

don’t want to hold hands.” She stubbornly crossed her

“Elva,” I said, stern.

She mirrored my

to go

“No.” She pouted now.

out my hand and waggled my fingers.

walked across the

to their assigned wolf

hand.

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

curiously.

Wolf!”

held her back at a safe

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