Chapter 103

“Oh dear.” I laugh lightly, as if he’s mistaken. “I guess we’ll need to change cleaning companies.”

It’s a lame attempt at a joke.

Liam chuckles-bless him.

Tobin just blinks at me.

Inside, I’m dying.

Does Tobin mean me? Or is he sniffing out Marla. Upstairs. In

a trunk???

The other wolves all pause and look at us questioningly.

Aaron drops a hand on Tobin’s shoulder. “We slaughtered two

steers for the event, and my chef roasted a whole p ig. Always thinking with your gut, huh?”

He doesn’t rescind his comment. Just looks at me, then up the

stairs, then back at me again.

Sh it.

“It’s this way,” I say.

The others continue walking and the moment Tobin falls into step, I move to catch up to Karolina, not wanting to risk any more interactions with Tobin or him sniffing out any more information about me-or any dead bodies on our property.

Once within the dining room, the Elders position themselves at the long table.

Liam has instructed some of his wolves to move the serving.

platters and dishes to the opposite end to allow everyone to

sit comfortably.

Aleksei sits at the head of the table. Samsen and Petyr on

either side of him.

sits next, on the far side, so her back

Tobin remains standing.

in and sits next to him.

other side by Karolina.

group of them.

Aaron.

Thank goodness.

can feel

nothing wrong, but the presence of so many

what that might

Samsen begins. “You accrued

your

“That is correct.”

Aaron absorbed more

busy trying not to d ie as I absorbed my father’s lineage to really get a good grip on

was going

like that and barely flinch? I’d been thrashing and convulsing and on the verge of biting off my own tongue. I thought my bones. were going to break from the force of it.

didn’t complain. Not

and when it was

me out of that Grove and took care of me,

hurting and

Da mn.

thigh and he squeezes my hand for a second.

why he

being in the same

off taking control of a whole

for you,”

Karolina

should’ve known. He should’ve told me.

talking all that much,

the

have

I should’ve known.

is a basic pack principle in

Alpha wills their strength to the person who will

a bit of hair, some ‘marker’ so the power flows into

to me. And then. he did go and notify his

never said, but somehow in the course of that night, it became clear that I

was another

know much about the

follow in my father’s footsteps and become

my father took his own life, anyone could have challenged him. And that’s what transpired with

was an old movie my dad made

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