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

her desk. “I don’t know. At

80.”

Time presses on relentlessly. I feel a gush of nostalgia for the little girl

retire,” I say to Liam.

to her pack and her community.” Liam shrugs. “She’ll be present tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins,

It’s a warning.

ready,” I tell my brother.

for him, I

of the mansion. It’s tasteful. The strings of a four-piece quartet drift to

get that

He has a set of wolves that perform

of food are laid out in the main hall, and would you look at that, someone removed

at me.

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

not in the mood for

isn’t good for the

whisper a wish and prayer.

scheme of things. But it

pantsuit paired

a watch. In the trunk of belongings that Aaron sent over, the giant

I won’t resent his presence since

prognosis, I can’t go

so, I’d be giving him

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