Chapter 91

I spend the hour before the start of the ceremony walking the main pack’s grounds.

There are so many buildings in need of updating and repair. There are resources that we need to invest in order to

structure Pack Roberts for future generations.

A plan begins to take shape.

I might not live long enough to fulfill it but…

My brother meets me at the schoolhouse. It’s a single room building. Seeing it now with the eyes of an adult, I wonder at how small the structure is and how antiquated.

“You’d think we were Amish,” I mumble.

He laughs.

The door is locked but he whips out a set of keys and lets us in. The room is all whi te and there are computers along one wall. Maps on the other, chalkboards and a desk at the front.

“Is Mrs. McHenry still teaching?” I ask.

“She is.”

“How old is she?”

“200?”

“No

globe on her desk. “I don’t know. At

80.”

to sit in. Front row. Second seat from the right. I touch the desktop. Time presses on relentlessly. I feel a gush of nostalgia for the little girl I was

she wants to retire,” I

her pack and her community.” Liam shrugs. “She’ll be present tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins, then his playful mood changes. “Just don’t make too

It’s a warning.

I tell my

waiting for him,

spills out of the mansion. It’s tasteful. The strings of a four-piece quartet drift to me. I always liked

get that

is no doubt Aaron’s doing. He has a set of wolves that

are laid out in the main hall, and would you look at that, someone removed the stripper pole.

at

glass of Champagne. I accept the flute and then set it back down

not in the

good for the baby.

touch my stomach and whisper a

in the scheme of things. But it would be so nice to give

pantsuit paired

trunk of belongings that Aaron sent over, the giant diamond ring was

his presence since

given my recent prognosis, I

so, I’d be giving him my entire pack.

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255