Chapter 25
“There she is, the guest of the hour.”
Chief Greenbriar was dressed every bit as formally as he had been the evening before, and the tux he wore should have looked out of place along the dusty paths of the overpopulated wolf habitat. But, instead, I almost imagined the animals had invited him over for dinner and were even now whipping up a feast within their shadowed cavern...rather than cowering in the far corner hoping to escape from a predator twice as dangerous as themselves.
“Alpha,” I acknowledged, advancing slowly so I had time to scan the surroundings in search of the child who had initially drawn me in. At first, I couldn’t find her. But then Harmony’s arm twitched and I caught sight of mother and daughter huddled together beneath a spreading maple tree at the edge o
