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

spins a globe on her

80.”

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

wants to retire,” I

to 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 many changes all at once, ‘kay.”

It’s a warning.

should get ready,” I

him, I walk away.

quartet drift to me. I always liked the sound of a

never get

doubt Aaron’s doing. He has a set of wolves that perform at most every event he

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

winks at

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

the mood for drinking quite

for

my stomach and whisper a wish

the scheme of things. But it would be so nice

pantsuit paired with expensive

of belongings that Aaron sent over, the giant diamond ring was also packed, but I didn’t

tonight, and I won’t resent his presence since it reinforces the

recent prognosis, I

doing so, I’d be giving

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