Chapter  385

SHAWN I stood outside the massive school complex, staring up at the building that seemed to stretch endlessly in every direction, and seriously considered just portaling back home. Except I couldn't portal. That was Lake's ability. I could only disintegrate things, which wasn't exactly useful for escaping uncomfortable social situations. "You're going to be fine," Ollie said beside me, somehow managing to sound confident despite being five years old and facing his own first day back at school after everything that had happened. "You don't know that," I muttered. "I do know that," Ollie insisted. "Because Grandma said anyone who's mean to you will answer to her, and everyone's terrified of Grandma." That was probably true. The adoption ceremony three days ago had been very public, very official, and very much witnessed by everyone in the pack. Silvia and Samuel had made it clear that I was now officially their son, that I carried the Blackwood name, and that anyone who had a problem wit