KATHERINE
It had taken me half a minute to choose my future home from the catalog Layla and Harold had sent me—and, when I saw it in person, I knew I had made the right choice.
The stunning villa they’d gifted me was less than a mile away from the Lone Moon pack territory. It was close enough that I could visit my dad, Xander, and my friends whenever I wanted, and Karen wouldn't be able to say a word because, after all, I wouldn't actually be living inside the packlands. More importantly, it was also extremely close to my birth pack’s lands, which now stood as a barren no-man’s-land. That had been the primary reason why I’d picked it—it sat perfectly between the territory where I was born and the one where I was adopted. It couldn't belong to anyone else but me.
The fact that it was als
