I was about to answer him when my phone rang.
It was the care facility. My mother's bills were two weeks overdue. If they weren't settled, her treatments would stop.
I lowered the phone. The morning had gone cold against my fingers.
After the wolfsbane attack I'd given up my pack job and emptied my savings into my mother's room there. Liam had taken over after that. Now, of course, he had quietly cut her off,a precise little blade slipped under my ribs.
Kael saw my face. "What's wrong?"
I didn't see the point in hiding it. "My mother's care. They've been pulling her supplements. He stopped paying."
He had Rowan on the line before I had finished. A few sentences and it was done. He turned back to me.
"It's settled. From today, every cost connected with your mother is Shadowfang's. Th
