Chapter 101

I debate carrying the books back to my room. Given that I broke the door handle, there isn’t a way for me to close and lock it for privacy. Not that a locked door is all that much of a deterrent. A wolf could easily break one down-as Aaron has done on more than one occasion-and if I could break in….

Yeah, the locked door probably isn’t stopping anybody.

My best bet is to grab whatever information is available and

then return to my room or to have Adam transfer the security.

information to the lab to me.

I make a mental note to require him to do just that.

As Alpha, there shouldn’t be a single inch of territory on these

lands that is denied to me.

I grab the first book and flip through the pages. It’s Hemingway. And one of my father’s favorites. I hold the book. by each cover and fan the pages upside down. An envelope drops out.

Birthday Leah.

same with the next book,

Whitmann.

Birthday

one after that. And after that.

ground. One for each year I’ve been pledged to

last book on the shelf. The one set

of classic literature,

children’s book. The Giving Tree.

no envelope inside. Just a hastily

sure this is the last note my father

his deathnote to

that’s tied with a pink. bow. It’s mine. From when I was a baby. My mother had kept this in an old photo album with handprints and footprints and a slew of pictures taken of me up until about age three.

the soft lock of hair at the bottom of

cover them. I want to rush back to my room, slam the door and read each word my father left for me.

of individuals. Chances are I’ll be bawling my eyes out the

are a

lls me to delay, but I have to head back downstairs to

of the stairs, Aaron is waiting for me.

draw

fine,” I

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