  &quot;Is everything ready?&quot; I wander into the new dining room space we cleared and created this past week in readiness for my father s first official visit. The room which used to be the medbay, although now our outhouse for the clinic is complete, we are freeing up space indoors. The village has come on a lot these past months and even though we know a move back to the valley is in the books, we still want this place to have a use. Some of our pack might want to live out here despite the Alpha and Luna returning to the main homestead. Sierra has already expressed desire to continue here with Radar now that she feels her position as Rema no longer requires her to oversee the reunited Santos.  I think in all honesty she wants to relish in her new love and honeymoon period without grossing out her son.
  I ll be sad to leave our home behind, but I know this is the start of a new cha

  &quot;If you are satisfied with the terms of the treaty then there s no need to delay in signing it. I came here with the support of my coven, and this will put an end to two decades of unrest.&quot; My father sits back in his chair across the table and smiles somewhat eerily. I think it s meant to translate to warm and kind but with his eternally stiff and frosty aura, it s not. 
  &quot;Finally, we get to know what peace is. Something I barely remember in my lifetime.&quot; Colton lays the pen on top of it and slides the document to me. I don t need to read it if he has and approved, so I quickly scrawl my name on the bottom and slide it towards Varro. It seems such a minor act for such a huge outcome. My feelings seem somewhat understated considering this is such a huge thing and I guess it hasn t sunk in yet.
  &quot;Now all the formalities are out of the way. I was hoping on some 

  I watch my brother across the room, listless, and lost about how to approach him. Colton is pacing around, hand gesturing in an angry manner as he thrashes out whatever dialogue the two of them are having and Jasper keeps glaring his way. Arms folded across his chest, face tight, expression grim in an 'I m not interested  pose and watching as my mate talks about what happens from here on in. Whether my brother likes it or not, he s stuck with us and a life in this pack. I should be over there, contributing, coaxing, but I couldn t stand it any longer. 
  Sensing Jasper s pain and reluctance to start to let go of a decade of ingrained hatred and hurt was overwhelming me to the point of sheer exhaustion. His head full of vengeance and blind belief that the only cure to his emptiness is to somehow make the entire Santo pack suffer. To never return to being Lycan among a pack who would emb

&quot;Is everything ready?&quot; I wander into the new dining room space we cleared and created this past week in readiness for my father s first official visit. The room which used to be the medbay, although now our outhouse for the clinic is complete, we are freeing up space indoors. The village has come on a lot these past months and even though we know a move back to the valley is in the books, we still want this place to have a use. Some of our pack might want to live out here despite the Alpha and Luna returning to the main homestead. Sierra has already expressed desire to continue here with Radar now that she feels her position as Rema no longer requires her to oversee the reunited Santos.  I think in all honesty she wants to relish in her new love and honeymoon period without grossing out her son.
  I ll be sad to leave our home behind, but I know this is the start of a new chapter for all of us.
  &quot;So clean it s sparkling. The grounds have been refreshed, everything scr

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