Chapter 67

“Just a drink or two.” Mom, if this gets us into trouble with the lions, maybe we won’t be able to take the blow. “My brother told him, in a soft voice” Nikolai doesn’t see it. This must be handled carefully. I understand what you want, I would want the same if something had happened to Natalya, but it could hurt the entire pack.

I should have known that my brother was back in Bratsk for something “important.”

But Mom was not going to ignore the obvious:

“I don’t give a damn about those fleas,” she responded. “I can’t believe they put a litter of lazy cats above a member of our family!”

“I’m not putting anyone above my son!” Dad growled. “I’m trying to protect him!”

“He should have told us, not do it all behind our backs again,” Mikhail replied.

“I wasn’t going to damage your precious treatise, I know how much you worked on it,” I said to him, with a condescending tone.

“ENOUGH, ALL THREE!”

My mother’s voice was powerful enough to calm