MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Sixty — The Ranked Wolves Return
The knock came at seven in the morning.
Sharp. Deliberate.
The knock of someone who had made a decision and was committing to it.
Mara opened the door.
The wolf from the Gathering Hall stood there.
The one who had stood up and said you destroyed everything.
Second rank insignia.
Face that had spent its whole life certain of its own position.
He looked at her.
She looked at him.
"I came to the transition council meeting yesterday," he said.
She waited.
"You did not see me," he said. "I sat in the back. I did not speak." He paused. "I listened."
She waited.
He looked at the floor.
Then back at her.
"My name is Aldric," he said. "My family has been second rank for six generations." He paused. "My grandmother was
