NovelUpdateChapter 155
Kennedy
| slept until late in the morning the next day. Surprisingly, so did Quirin. Or at least, he was still in bed when |
woke up. The moment | stirred, | felt his lips press against the top of my head. “Did you sleep well, Little Pup?”
| shift. My body is still sore as the memory of last night returns to me.
“Wendy...” | say, starting to get out of bed.
“She’s awake. Kier toldthat Henry went to stay with her while your parents cto get sfood and
before they'd finished eating, Alpha Harold cto get your mom, letting her know that Wendy was awake.”
| feel him press his lips to my head again. It's so unusual for my active mate to just lie here in bed withthat |
asswe're about to have the ‘talk’ ofnot going to the safe room.
“You scared the shit out ofyesterday,” he says softly. “When | realized that you weren't in a safe room, that
you were exposed to the fighting, | struggled to focus on the fight. And then, | saw Wendy in Henry's arms. She
was awake but had already been slashed across her chest and abdomen.”
He stops and | wait for him to continue.
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“She looks enough like you that | had a terrible moment of absolute fear. And then, | couldn’t stop fighting to
make sure you were safe. But the thought of losing you, Kennedy... it terrified me. | know I'm not perfect. | know
you deserve better than a mate like me, but | can’t lose you, Kennedy. | can’t,” he says, his voice getting tight.
| turn over in his arms to face him. “I'm right here, Quirin. I'm not going anywhere.”
He looks down at me, his teeth clenched tightly, and | can see the war in his eyes. “I know you're going to tell
“You saw why | have to be there, Quirin. If my mother and | had been in a safe room, Wendy would have died.”
“While | don’t agree that a pup her age should have been in the fight to begin with, | also know that our pack is
suffering with this silver powder, so | know it's important for you to be there. | don’t want our pack members
dying, Kennedy. But, | can’t lose you. So I'm going to give you a short list of warriors that | trust to protect you
and you'll pick the one you're most comfortable having as your guard.”
I look down at his chest, trying to collect my thoughts.
“Kennedy,” he growls, reaching up to tilt my chin to look at him. “This is not negotiable.”
“I don’t have a problem having a guard, Quirin. But... well, do you think anyone would really want that job?”
“What are you talking about?”
“It’s a shit job, Quirin.”
“I dare you to say that to Bradley,” he says, his Quirin crooked smile coming out. | gently smack his chest.
“I don’t mean because it’s not a worthy job. It’s just...” | shrug. “Connor's pack loves my mother. Our pack...
doesn’t lovethe sway.”
He looks atthoughtfully for a moment. “In any pack, the Luna guard is an honored position, whether she’s a
warrior or not. She's too important, YOU'RE too important, to leave unprotected. Even Farrah has a guard when
Harold isn’t around. And while | know that not every person in this pack has learned to respect you and you may
have had a tough start to your
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“You think so?” | ask. | hope he means it.
“Kennedy, | know you were busy during your Luna ceremony party, dancing with your friends and family, but the
pack had a great time. They were dancing, talking with your family, and enjoying themselves in a way that I'm
not used to seeing. The pack is changing because of you. They are getting stronger, because of you. They are
learning what it means to have a Luna who heals them, in more ways than one.”
That makessmile. | hope he’s right. “Who's on your short-list?”
“Lane, Leo, Terrance, and Randall.” They're all warriors who stayed for my Luna ceremony and all warriors who
I've healed.
“Can | think about it?” | ask.
“Don’t take too long to think about it. | have no intention of feeling fear like | felt yesterday ever again,
Kennedy.”
“Okay.”
“Now, there's one more thing. Your mother said our hospital isn’t stocked well. I'm not sure why you didn’t order
what you thought we needed, but put in the request to Kier. I'll make sure he puts it through.”
| frown again. “Quirin, | need a budget. Sof these items that I'd like to upgrade are expensive.”
He looks at me. “How expensive?”
“Well, the x-ray machine that my mother said looked older than her, would cost us at least $30,000. | could get
one that’s cheaper, but it wouldn't be commercial grade which is what we should have considering the training
and battles that we have as werewolves.”
He looks atlike I'm crazy. “Little Pup, you realize that our pack has money, right?”
“Well, obviously. | mean, we never run out of food or have to worry about water or electricity, or things like that.
But | don’t want to bankrupt the pack to get an x-ray machine. The one that’s here works and when we can
afford it, I'll get a new one. And, if we can’t ever afford it, I'll make do or I'll get a cheaper one.”
He throws off the covers and stands. “Con.”
“What? Where are we going?” | ask.
“I don’t even know how you didn’t know this about our pack. | mean, how is that even possible? Everyone
knows,” he says. | think he’s talking to me, but since I'm used to my mother talking to herself, it sounds more
like that.
Suddenly, he stops and looks at me. “Why do you think Jasper is attacking our pack?”
| shrug. “To take over the land and accumulate our warriors making his pack stronger.”
He stares ata moment, then shakes his head.
“Get dressed, Kennedy.”
| do and then Quirin leadsdownstairs. We run into Kier and Arianna on the stairs. Based on her blush, I'd say
they were kissing a moment ago. | wink at her.
“This looks serious,” Kier says, watching us.
“I just found out that Kennedy didn’t purchase what we needed for the hospital because she’s afraid of
bankrupting the pack.”
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“Seriously?” he asks
“Why isbeing fiscally responsible and not bankrupting the pack such a surprise?” | ask as we get to the first
floor.
“You're going to bankrupt the pack? How?” Terrance asks.
“No, I'm not? That's what I'm saying. That's why | haven't purchased the equipment for the hospital,” | insist,
getting irritated.
“Is that why your mother was complaining about us not having everything a hospital needs while she was fixing
us up last night?” Lane asks, walking up.
“Ill talk to her. She knows you don’t use the hospital here like they do in her pack.” | say as Quirin continues to
leadtoward his office.
“Alpha Terrance asks.
“I'm handling it.” Quirin says.
“Handling what? There's nothing to handle Quirin. If | can’t order more supplies right now, | won't. | just need you
to givea budget.” | say as we walk into his office.
He walks to his chair and pullsinto his lap, his arms wrapping on either side ofto holdsteady while
he pulls his laptop over and begins typing.
“Our pack has investments in multiple things, Kennedy. My father started sof these investments before |
was born and he diversified until his death,” he says as he pulls up selaborate spreadsheet.
Then he leans forward, resting his chin on my shoulder. “Do you see this number right here?” he asks.
“Yes.”
That's how much money this pack is worth, Kennedy. Your $30,000 x-ray machine won't even make a dent in
this.”
| stare at the number on the screen.
“That's a lot of zeros.”
| feel him chuckle behind me.
“Yes, itis.”
“Wait. THAT'S why Jasper is after our pack?”
“This pack is extremely wealthy, Kennedy. We are, by far, the wealthiest pack in the region, possibly the country.
We could live off the interest that this money makes every month and never even touch the principal, and most
months | have extra to reinvest.”
I'm still gaping at all those zeros when he turns his head and looks at me. “You really didn’t know?”
| shake my head. “How would | know?”
“I thought maybe your father would have told you.”
| shake my head. “Connor might know, but | was never involved in the finances of our pack. | just knew that
Mom's school brought money into the pack, and we never had to worry about feeding our pack members.”
He wraps his arms around me, holdingtightly and pressing another kiss to my head.
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