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?”

chuckle. “No

globe on her desk. “I don’t know.

80.”

the desktop. Time presses on relentlessly. I feel a gush of nostalgia for the little girl I was and all the things I learned in this

she wants to retire,” I say to Liam.

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

It’s a warning.

should get ready,” I tell my brother.

waiting for him, I walk

low sound of music spills out of the mansion. It’s tasteful. The strings of a four-piece quartet drift to me. I always liked the sound of a cello and violin. I never learned

get

doubt Aaron’s doing. He has a set of

look at that, someone removed the stripper pole. I glance quickly at Aaron.

winks at me.

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

the

for the

my stomach and whisper a wish

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

paired with

of belongings that Aaron sent over, the

won’t resent his presence since it reinforces the ‘peace’ but our marriage is

given my recent prognosis, I can’t go back to

giving him my entire pack.

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