Chapter 21: Celebration Night
The party transitioned seamlessly from playful chaos to something far more uninhibited as the sun set and the moon rose high above the Packhouse garden. The younger children and their parents began to drift away, their laughter and sleepy goodnights fading into the night. The older teens and twenty-somethings, however, were just getting started.
The music pulsed louder, filling the air with a rhythm that had bodies moving under the glow of fairy lights. Some shifters shed their shirts to jump into the pool, splashing and laughing as they swam in their underwear. Maddie was at the center of the dance floor, her petite troll frame moving energetically as she danced with a broad-shouldered bear shifter named Toni. Nearby, Sahara was lounging on a pool chair, he
