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.”

on her desk. “I don’t know. At

80.”

the right. I touch the desktop. Time presses on relentlessly. I

retire,” I say

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

It’s a warning.

get ready,” I tell my brother.

for him,

tasteful. The strings of a four-piece quartet drift

get that

orchestra is no doubt Aaron’s doing. He has a set of wolves that perform at

the main hall, and would you look at that, someone

winks at me.

glass of Champagne. I accept

Luca. Just not in the mood

for

and whisper a wish and

life doesn’t really matter in the scheme of things. But it

paired with expensive heels. I

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

be helping me tonight, and I won’t resent his presence

recent prognosis, I can’t go back

I’d be giving him my entire

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