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.”

globe on her desk.

80.”

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

retire,” I say

present tonight. Ask her yourself.” He grins, then his playful mood changes. “Just don’t

It’s a warning.

I

him,

The strings of a four-piece quartet drift to me. I always liked the sound of a cello and violin. I never learned to

never get

doing. He has a set of wolves that

laid out in the main hall, and would you look at that, someone removed the

at me.

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

the mood for drinking quite

for the

whisper a wish and prayer.

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

paired with

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

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

given my recent prognosis, I

I’d be giving him my