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.”

a globe on her desk. “I

80.”

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 quaint one-room facility.

to retire,” I say to Liam.

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

It’s a warning.

I tell my brother.

him, I walk away.

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

never get

He has a set of wolves that perform at most

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

winks at me.

pack, offers a glass of Champagne. I accept the flute and then set it back down on

not in the mood for drinking

good for the

touch my stomach and whisper a

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

black pantsuit paired with expensive

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

presence since it

I can’t go

doing so, I’d be giving him my entire

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