Chapter 86

Abby

It was after midnight by the time the last of the guests left the hall, and nearly one by the time Kade and I made it back to the packhouse.

I had stopped feeling my feet sometime around eleven.

“You could take the shoes off,” Kade said as we climbed the stairs to the Alpha wing.

“Your mother said Lunas don’t walk around barefoot in front of visiting Alphas.”

“The visiting Alphas are asleep.”

“She might still be watching.”

He glanced back down the empty staircase as though he wasn’t entirely sure I was joking. I wasn’t entirely sure either.

At the top of the stairs, I stopped and leaned against the wall to pull them off anyway. The relief was so enormous that I closed my eyes.