Chapter 151 Brains Over Brawn

Owen’s POV

Mommy was in her own head that night. She didn’t let us see her upset, but we weren’t stupid. Something had really hurt her feelings.

She was quiet over dinner and sat with us while we did our homework. Instead of focusing on helping us, though, she sat with her head in her hands over a blank sheet of paper. Occasionally she’d scribble something on it, only to cross it out a second later.

Ares and I shared our patented Something Is Really Wrong look but didn’t say anything straight away. After a few looks, though, we asked what was wrong, but she wouldn’t say. Mommy was like that; even though we wanted to look after her, she always asserted that she was the one who looked after us.

We still wanted to cheer her up, though. I didn’t like seeing her sad.

So, the next morning, at Alpha training, Ares and I devised a way to solve all of our problems. It seemed so simple to us.

But it turned out that we weren’t the only ones there with a plan.

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“Good morning,” drawled Hunte