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 Mark for

invited Miss Elva,”

be dangerous.” I didn’t have an inner wolf so couldn’t speak to the

warning if a wolf

of your situation,” Mark said. “He’s asked me to relay

have

to meet

that, I was certain. If he said we would be

we would be safe.

“We’ll go and

“Yay!” Elva cheered.

to be heightened as I carried Elva out past the gardens

“Down, please,” Elva said.

her down. “Now don’t run off. We have to

to hold hands.” She stubbornly crossed

“Elva,” I said, stern.

She mirrored my

want to go back inside, do

“No.” She pouted now.

held out my hand and waggled my fingers. She sighed dramatically but finally

we walked across the

wolf as they approached.

hand.

he led us to was sitting politely on the grass. It watched us approach, then

curiously.

Wolf!” Elva

her back at

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