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 out

me. “Chef Dom is sending trays of food

too.”

here.

feel bad?” I ask. “About my dad?”

pack house. We’re outside and he points to a

from the main house.

he says, “Have you checked the

“The library books?”

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

and dealing with some

I can lean into

been busy with your baby.”

course I don’t.

for a long time. There has been a lot of mismanagement. Your dad was

gambling rings and even weapons trafficking.”

“You’re not serious.”

“I am.”

that money from the marked account, that was just one misstep among many.” He expels a deep breath. “You

our corporate headquarters

last sat on the board.

sizable?”

have a controlling majority.”

gasp. I wrench myself away from him.

Just when I think

Again and again

my shoulder and spins me back

from me when we’re

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