Bad Love An Alpha’s Regret

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.”

brother spins a globe on her desk. “I

80.”

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 quaint one-room facility.

wants to retire,” I say

likes being of service 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

It’s a warning.

ready,” I tell my

waiting for him, I walk away.

music spills 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 violin. I never learned to

get that

has a set of wolves that perform at

and would you look

winks at me.

offers a glass of Champagne. I accept the flute and then set it back down on his tray. “Is something wrong,

the mood for drinking quite

good for

stomach and whisper a wish

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

a black pantsuit paired with expensive

trunk of belongings that Aaron sent over, the giant

and I won’t resent his presence since it reinforces

given my recent prognosis, I can’t

be giving him my entire pack.