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.

on the far side, so

Tobin remains standing.

in and sits next

next, on the other side by

group of them. And next

Aaron.

Thank goodness.

can feel

but the presence of so many

what that

“You accrued the powers

Leithrow when Alpha Brian Clemson né Leithrow attacked your Luna in the Grove on

“That is correct.”

What? Aaron absorbed more

d ie as I absorbed my father’s lineage to really get

else was

I’d been thrashing and convulsing and on the verge of biting off my own tongue. I thought my bones. were going

complain. Not

power and when it was

and took care of

to be hurting and exhausted too.

Da mn.

and he squeezes

he didn’t make such a big deal about

being in the same room. Because

off taking control of a whole

for you,”

lips twitch. Karolina nods like she agrees

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

that

gives the

have

I should’ve known.

is a basic pack principle

to the person who will claim it

any time with blood or a bit of hair, some ‘marker’ so the power flows into that specific person.

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

that night, it became clear that I was set to inherit, not my

there was

where my father pulled the trigger and I haven’t had the courage to ask. I don’t know much

been groomed since we were kids to follow in my

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

movie my dad made me watch with him as a

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