*CHLOE.* I kept my mouth shut as we unpacked the groceries, though it took effort. I wanted to shake these people—tell them that Adrian wasn’t the enemy, and yeah, okay yes, he had abandoned them for years now, and was the reason they had been infiltrated in the first place, but he’d done nothing but try to keep this pack together after Tyler nearly tore it apart. He'd come back for them, and was trying to mend things. But they needed to loosen up and let him too, reconciliation was a two way road. Adrian bumped my shoulder with his, a quiet reassurance as if he could see the cogs turning in my head as i fumed. Let it go for now. That's what he was trying to tell me. Goddess knew I would try. And so I exhaled out my anger, and chose to remain focused on the cans of soup I was lining

