Chapter 111

“Here?” My dad looked around and smiled.

“Yeah, it’s off every pack land by a long stretch. It’s hidden unless you have been here before. It has everything we need to train Amy.” She grabbed his hands. “We could do it, can’t we?”

“I could probably get away for a month.” My dad looked hopefully at us.

“We could as well.” My mother beamed up at him.

“But why four years?” My dad turned back to me, almost missing the timeline.

“A degree in computer science takes four years. I can learn about coding, streamline programs, and, I can only assume, use the knowledge I learn legitimately and apply it to, say, hacking.”

My mom and dad froze. “You are a genius.” My father finally broke and ran over to me and picked me up. “You are honestly one of the smartest people I know.”

“Hacking? Why do you have to learn how to hack?” My mother’s voice had us freezing.

“Dad asked me to learn. He thinks Vince has something to do with the attacks on the pack.”

“Attacks?” My mother waved her hands. “Sit.” My dad dropped me. “Explain.” We both sat on the couch and looked at each other.

“So a lot happened this summer…” my dad started.

“I gathered that.” My mother waved her hands again. “So why don’t you explain it all to me?”

“So I went there.”

She held up a hand. “You went there, found out you had powers, and started training to use said powers.” And then she glared at my dad. “And you restarted the training you had in place for YEARS to train female warriors. What else happened?”

“Well…” My dad rubbed the back of his neck again.

“Dad was under a spell,” I jumped in.

“What? How is that even possible?”

“Well, it seems like my grandmother wasn’t the only witch who fell in love and mated a wolf.” My dad tried to smile and failed miserably.

“There was a she-wolf… an unranked she-wolf, who used your necklace in a spell to make Dad infatuated with her? It only worked for a few minutes each time, but he was close to falling for it when I got there.”

“What?”

Chapter 13

I dropped onto the sofa with both my parents looking down at me. My father mouthed the word sorry, but I just hipped him off, and he laughed. “Now spill.”

“Well, you already know the beginning of the story. I woke up in the past. You sent me to Dad’s, hoping he could figure something out to help me. Dad came clean, told me about our powers, and I started training.”

“She also started female warrior training back up,” My dad pointed out, but my mom glared at him over her shoulder.

“What do you mean, ‘back up’?”

I watched him gulp, and then he rubbed the back of his head. “I was missing you. And I had hoped that you still had friends in the pack.”

“I cut everyone off, Gav. It was too hard.”

My dad nodded. “Amy told me this summer. If I had known the truth, I would have stopped when I still had a semblance of control over the situation.”

“Gavin Michael Maclean, what did you do?”

“I gave the order to stop everything you were supposed to oversee in hopes your duty as Luna would push you to come back. Even if you hated me, I would still have you as my Luna.” He gave an awkward smile as my mother’s mouth dropped open.

“What did you do?” It was like she couldn’t believe him.

“I thought you would come back.” He looked away.

“When?” she whispered.

“Two years after you left.” She hit him over and over in his arms. “Ow, I’m sorry. I thought you still had friends there, and I didn’t know.”

“Gavin, how could you do that to the women?”

“To everyone. They didn’t even know how to talk to their wolves…” I pointed out, and my dad shot me a quick glare, but I smiled at him.

My mother choked. “Oh my sweet goddess.” She dropped her hands. “Those poor pups.” She pointed a finger at my father. “I don’t know how long this will take, but when I get back there, so help me and the goddess, you will help me rebuild my school.”

“You will come back?” My father’s hopeful question had her tirade ending prematurely.

“Of course, I’m coming back. You’re my mate.”

“Four years,” I called out.

“What?” Both my parents turned to me.

“It will take four years for us to come back to the pack. But we can also take summer trips, just the two of us, around the world, but in reality, we are just coming back home.”

My dad shook his head. “Although I would love to have you both every summer, Vince has spies. Every Alpha does.”

My mom turned to my dad and grabbed his arm. “What about here?”