Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

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.

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 and all the things I learned in this quaint one-room facility.

to retire,”

“She’ll be present tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins, then his playful

It’s a warning.

get ready,” I tell

waiting for him, I walk away.

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

get

Aaron’s doing. He has a set of wolves that perform

hall, and would you look at that, someone

at

event, also from Aaron’s pack, offers a glass of Champagne. I accept the

in the mood for drinking quite yet.”

for the

my stomach and whisper

things. But it would be so nice to give this child a chance.

paired with expensive heels.

the trunk of belongings that Aaron sent over, the giant

me tonight, and I won’t resent his presence since it reinforces the ‘peace’ but

prognosis, I can’t go back to

doing so, I’d be giving