Chapter 108

As soon as we got closer to Crescent Moon, I instantly cautioned Nevaeh on the dos and the don'ts for when we get there.

"Nevaeh dear, we're about to arrive at another pack and while we are there, you must not call me mummy for any reason, do you understand?" I began.

"But why?" She questioned with big round eyes. Of course, she's just a little girl so there's no way she'll understand. I'll just have to find a way to explain it.

"Um…. Well, it's….. It's a new game I came up with. It's called pretend. And we're going to start playing the game as soon as we arrive at our destination. While we're there, you'll pretend to be someone else's daughter and I'll pretend like I'm not your mother in front of everybody else but when we're in the room, we won't play the game. You mustn't tell anyone about our game and no one should find out we are mother and daughter or else you'll lose the game. You want to win the game, right?" I asked, amazed at how quickly my brain had come up with that.

"Yes!