(Julie’s POV) My wolf Linda’s words made me instinctively wary. “Julie, how did he know we’re working with Daniel?” And Lily, after she’d tried to threaten me with the truth about my mother’s death and failed, had gone quiet for a long time. She hadn’t sent a single message to harass me. Now, on the same day, both she and William reached out. Something felt off. Near the end of school, Celine texted me. She said a party had come up last minute on her end, and I needed to leave work early to pick up Mia and Lucy. Lucy’s original school had been a “werewolf elite” academy, tuition was extremely high. But after the divorce, my savings weren’t that much. I asked Lucy’s opinion. She liked being with Mia, so I transferred her records over. It also made drop-offs and pickups a lot easier.

