Page 131 of My Pleasure

The doorbell rang and moments later they heard a loud. “Oh my!”

Kiera turned. “Uhh Wolf, come here.”

The large wolf meandered over to her and got comfortable by her chair.

Meryn cracked up. “You named him Wolf? That’d be like naming my nugget ‘human’.”

Kiera blushed. She hadn’t really thought of it. She looked down. “I’ll get you a better name later, promise.”

The wolf simply closed his eyes.

Daia walked in. “Is that the wolf that was bonded to Bryson?” She sat down, putting a stack of papers on the table.

“Yeah.”

“You took his magic and realigned the animal to you?”

“I think so.”

“Amazing.”

“Super helpful at the time.”

Daia cleared her throat. “Given the evidence from the estate and the bank transfers to the individual who killed your parents, I had no problem submitting Ellar and Bryson’s deaths to both councils.” She smiled at Caiden. “I think I surprised your father by doing the paperwork.”

Caiden winced. “I forgot to update him yesterday.”

“You might want to bring him in on future plans,” she advised.

“I’ll call him in a little bit,” he promised.

“I already called him,” Meryn said.

Caiden stared. “When?”

“This morning after Daia went to the council. He’ll be here soon.” She looked at Ryuu. “I know we’re ass deep in Armstrongs, but we have a plus two coming in from Éire Danu.”

Ryuu smiled. “I’ll get two more chairs.”

Myra laughed. “We can head back to the Armstrong house Meryn.”

Meryn eyed the kids. “May not be a bad idea.”

Myra nodded. “I understand.” She stood and let out a piercing whistle. “We’re heading back to the house.” Graham and Ewan walked over to stand on either side of their mother. “Walk slow,” Graham said. Myra rolled her eyes and Tabitha laughed. Myra turned to Caiden. “Be a dear and talk to those builders for us. We need to expand the Armstrong estate.”

“Of course, Myra,” Caiden said.

In the end Augustus stayed and the rest of the Armstrongs went with their parents back to the house to put everything in order. The warriors had already cleared the bodies and cleaned up the blood, but they did have a hole in their roof that had to be addressed.

They heard the front door open and close, then Marshall walked in. He just stared at his son. “At least my niece calls me for updates,” he huffed.

“Sorry, Father. Things were moving a bit fast yesterday.”

Kiera saw a familiar flash of light from the other room, then King Darian and another fae walked in. Both went directly to Meryn to drop a kiss on the top of her head.

Meryn pointed. “You know Darian. The one next to him is my older brother, Oron.”

“How many brothers do you have?” Kiera asked.