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 seriously.”

her desk. “I don’t know. At least

80.”

walk to the desk I used 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

she wants to retire,” I say to Liam.

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

It’s a warning.

ready,” I tell

for him, I walk

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

never get that opportunity.

has a set of wolves that

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

at me.

I accept the flute

Just not in the mood for drinking quite yet.”

for

my stomach and whisper a

of things. But it would be so nice to

a black pantsuit paired with expensive heels. I

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

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

my recent prognosis, I can’t go back to Aaron.

be giving him my

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