Bramwell's POV
The orphanage needed a new roof.
This was not a problem I had known about until Daren, in the process of auditing the pack's charitable allocations, discovered that the orphanage in the southern settlement had been under-funded for three years because its allocation had been quietly redirected to one of Marcelline's pet projects. The building's east wing had a compromised beam that had been patched twice and needed replacing.
I found this out on a Tuesday and arrived at the orphanage on a Wednesday morning with two good carpenters and the materials needed.
Lenora was already there.
She was in the courtyard with four of the orphanage's children, teaching them something with a length of rope. The braiding motion she made was the one I recognized from years ago — the three
