#Chapter 197: Home Comforts

YENA Watching my adoptive mother embracing my giant husband right now was hilarious. Tina did this to everyone she loved – and who knows why? – tried to show them how much she cared by embracing them in tight, smothering bear hugs. If I hadn’t known it before today, I knew now that she loved Nolan like family, because she appeared to be trying her best to strangle him to death. The look on my Alpha’s face was what was killing me. Nolan didn’t know what to do, how to escape Tina politely and with dignity. So I sacrificed myself to save him, squishing between the two and taking the next big hug from Tina for myself. “Oh, I was so very happy to hear from you, sweetheart! To what do we owe this visit?” Tina released my bear hug and started playing with my hair, fluffing it up and pulling loose curls forward over my shoulders. I could tell she was admiring how long it had gotten. “Well, we have something to invite you to,” I said vaguely. “But I’d rather wait to talk about it ti