Jade
Exhaustion weighed on me as I approached the door to my house, barely able to keep my eyes open after the chaos at the pack house. Between the relentless questions from the kids and another unwanted encounter with Rowon’s child again, I was utterly drained. Just as I reached for the door, my mother’s voice slipped into my mind, piercing right through my fatigue.
“Jade, baby, where are you?”
I rolled my eyes; her timing was, as always, impeccable. She’d been the one to send me on that dreadful task to hand out candy to the kids at the pack house, and now she wondered where I’d gone off to? All I wanted was to collapse on my bed and sleep until the world faded away.
I sighed, letting sarcasm lace my words as I replied through the mindlink. “Oh, you know, just running the pack and ba
