CHAPTER 24
ARES“Ares!” Aurora shouted from the kitchen window, the yellow curtains blowing out into the night. She leaned over it and stared down at me, brows furrowed. “Ares, have you seen the pups?”
“Pups?” I asked, eyes flickering to the bonfire about a mile east.
Some pack members had invited us to an elder’s eightieth birthday party. Aurora had been complaining all day about not wanting to go. Hell, I didn’t want to f*****g go either. It was the first time in ages we were alone.
“Yes, Ares. Our pups.” She waved me off, disappearing for a moment, and then walking out of the back door, arching a brow at me. “Where are they? I told them to be back by seven, and it’s”—she looked down at the glowing numbers on her phone—“eight forty-five p.m.”
I wrapped my arms around her waist and pu
