Chapter 47
I would have liked to spend longer ensuring that Gracie bounced back from her k********g. But Chamberlain had arrived just as my pack and I emerged from the infirmary. And it seemed the better part of valor to draw my father away from the other alpha before Wolfie initiated any fights on my behalf.
“I’m proud of you, you know,” Dad told me as we watched the Tribunal member and the human police chief hash out each’s jurisdiction. “You’ve made a place for yourself out here on your own. And in the midst of that independence, you never forgot the value of pack.”
We sat side by side in one of the clan’s rental vehicles, waiting for family members to slide into seats so we could all return to Haven for Derek’s funeral pyre. And while Dad’s words should have filled me with supreme s
