I cherished that she still called them boys even even though they had been men. Everybody in the room was once over forty, however she refused to suppose of them as anything other than kids. “I promise, Ma.”
“Let’s end dinner and get it on the desk earlier than all hell breaks loose.”
I tried to be normal. God, how I tried as we placed all the meals on the desk and served the Gallo army. As I glanced around the eating room, noticing the smiling faces, I questioned how one-of-a-kind the entirety would be without this. Without the dinner. Without my parents. Without all of it.
Alpha Rolf squeezed my leg beneath the table. “Doll, what’s wrong?” he whispered in my ear, tickling me with his whiskers.
I plastered a smile on my face and stabbed my fork into the seven-layer lasagna that had so
