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’.

to assemble the pack, but everything about today just feels anticlimactic, and,

what to do with myself or

start.

me into a

this hug. I needed one.

And my memories of this place are so crystal clear-they were the only thing that kept me going

he tells me. “You

Aaron felt, being ‘dismissed’?

to be offended, because his heart is in the right place. I’m a mess right now and it has been

up. Sleep for a few hours. We

I’m ruffling a lot of feathers and most people, no matter how

“Yeah. Sure. Okay.”

Marla grins.

arm-in-arm as I walk

don’t go back to my room. I hit the kitchen first. There

bacon and eggs are still on the stove. 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 wolves that would

too old. Aside from the

the back stairs up to the main landing. From here, I can go up two or three flights. I can turn left or right. On a lark I take a right, toward my father’s

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