Chapter 72

“Good riddance,” Marla says.

I glance at her sharply but she doesn’t notice. She’s busy sh ooting daggers at Aaron’s back with her mascara-caked eyes.

I take a deep breath.

I’m not being nice.

I look around the hall at the other wolves that are hanging around. A couple of older males look vaguely familiar and there are two younger guys who are conversing with

my brother.

No one approaches me. There are no welcomes.

Everyone is still grieving, I remind myself. But that doesn’t make this ‘homecoming’ feel any less like ‘home’.

been time to clean out my room or to assemble the pack, but everything about today just feels anticlimactic,

I don’t know what to do with myself or where to

start.

pulls me into a hug. “I still can’t believe you’re here.”

hug. I

haven’t been around my family in a long time. And my memories of this place are so crystal clear-they were the only thing that kept me going in those

he tells me. “You should

Aaron felt,

place. I’m

hours. We

as I’m sure I’m ruffling a lot of feathers and

“Yeah. Sure. Okay.”

Marla grins.

as I walk

don’t go back to my room. I hit the

Di rty bowls are left on the counter. It isn’t a disaster, but there isn’t a spread of food laid out or the team of

that look too old.

kitchen I take the back stairs up to the main landing. From here, I can go up two or three flights. I can turn

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