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

to

Nicholas personally invited Miss Elva,”

an inner wolf so couldn’t speak to the

a wolf

Mark said. “He’s asked me to relay to you that

Elva have

want to meet the

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

we would be safe.

go and meet the wolves tomorrow.”

“Yay!” Elva cheered.

reassurances, my nerves continued to be heightened as I carried Elva out past the gardens and into the grassy fields beyond, where the wolves were lined up,

“Down, please,” Elva said.

“Now don’t run off. We have to

don’t want to hold hands.” She

“Elva,” I said, stern.

She mirrored

go back inside, do

“No.” She pouted now.

and waggled my fingers. She sighed dramatically but

walked

each girl to their assigned wolf as they approached. I was

hand.

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

curiously.

Wolf!” Elva

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