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72. Cheating

Author: RJ Cross
last update Last Updated: 2023-07-03 22:05:30

KEIRA:

The pack was gloomy.

Not once did I see someone laughing or smiling which was not the usual scenario.

Everyone was grieving the sudden passing of Alpha John. Though we kind of expected that this would happen. That he would die, but I never thought that this would be this soon.

I was not prepared.

No one was prepared.

I oversaw all the preparations including the food of everyone who would visit the pack to pay their respects. Including the alphas and betas from the neighboring pack.

This was the final day that I would be seeing Alpha John's face and tomorrow, he would be buried where Rei and his wife had rested their final place.

I was hoping that Lennox would do his duty as the only living child of the previous alpha. To be with us. But I waited in vain.

Still no message from him.

"Is he even still alive?" I asked out of the blue.

Tate and I were sitting opposite each other. Only a few had managed to stay awake at this hour. The others were already going to their rooms t
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