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

all the way

“Chef Dom is sending trays of

too.”

Aaron is here. Or why

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

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

from the main

he says, “Have you checked the books

“The library books?”

smile is wry. “Accounting books. The records for Pack Roberts and

and

I can lean into the conversation and

and say, “I’ve been busy with your baby.”

course I don’t.

lot of mismanagement. Your dad was pulling

several underground gambling

“You’re not serious.”

“I am.”

misstep among many.” He expels a deep

our

wonder when my brother last sat on the

sizable?”

have a controlling majority.”

away from him. “Gods, it’s

when I think I can

something awful. Again and again and again.”

and spins

me when we’re talking.”

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