# MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
## Chapter Twenty Eight — *Common Ground*
The common rank wolves were not what Mara expected either.
She kept being surprised by people.
She was going to have to stop expecting things and just let them be what they were.
There were eleven of them in Rhen's main building when she walked in. Sitting in chairs and on windowsills and one very large man sitting on the floor with his back against the wall because the chairs were clearly not built for him and he had made a practical decision about it.
Different packs. Different territories. Different ages.
But the same expression on every single face.
The one she had seen in the clearing.
Recognition.
They looked at her when she came through the door.
Not at Caius.
Not at Zane.
At her.
She stopped in the mid
