chapter 76

Andrei I can hear my pack members talking outside the house as we get closer. The boy's hand is still tucked in mine, but I can’t seem to pull away from him. When he looks up at me, his eyes make something twist in my gut. Then when we break through the treeline, they stop behind me. The she-wolf sniffs the air and backs away. The boy looks over his shoulder at her, and the other two are standing just in the shadows of the trees. “Are there children to play with?” The boy suddenly asks me. “No,” I answer and shake my head. There is no reason for me to lie to them. Both wolves growl behind me. “Jonah, come here,” the young girl calls as she waves him over. Her hair is cut short, and if I couldn’t smell her scent, I would have mistaken her for a boy. Her brown doe eyes shine with fear of the small child standing beside me. The chatter of my pack stops, but I can hear the crackle of the fire pit that sits out the front of the house and smell the spit roast cooking above it. “He won’t hurt