Chapter 89

LEAH

I ordered the back fields mowed after all. The grass will likely stick to feet and shoes and get dragged inside, but there is nothing to be done for it.

We need a place to set up the bars and to move out all the booze. And lest my brother and his packmates fr eak the f* ck out, I thought it better to move their stash rather than pour it

down the drain.

I’m not sure the kitchen staff is up to the task and the wolf I remembered so fondly from my childhood passed away a few years ago, I’d learned. The ‘chef’ is a nineteen year old wolf

with an attitude and penchant for fusion dishes.

I like that he wants to take ownership of the menu. I think he

was expecting me to boss him around. Instead I shook his.

hand. Welcomed him to my pack. And told him to make us

proud.

We’ll see if that results in something amazing or the kind of

sp iteful coup that might ruin this entire party.

This is a country estate, it’s not like Uber eats or Doordash are

the way

Aaron tells me. “Chef Dom is

too.”

why Aaron is here. Or why he is

this because you feel bad?” I ask. “About my dad?”

me aside from the flurry of wolves working to clean up the main pack house. We’re outside and he points

the main house.

sit, he says, “Have you checked the

“The library books?”

“Accounting books. The records for

been depressed and dealing

can lean into the conversation

busy with your

course I don’t.

a lot of mismanagement. Your dad was pulling money from the company

underground gambling rings and even weapons trafficking.”

“You’re not serious.”

“I am.”

money from the marked account, that was just one misstep among many.” He expels a deep breath. “You should know that my pack has bought up a sizable portion of Roberts

been to our corporate

brother last sat on the board. “How

sizable?”

a

I wrench myself away from

think I can start to trust

do something awful. Again and

shoulder and spins me back

away from me when we’re

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