95 The Invite

~Brandon~

I exited the shower after spending a while in there and returned to the room right around the time that my phone rang.

I rushed towards it and saw it was Lesley. I didn't want to answer it, but knowing it could be an emergency, I answered the call.

"Hello," I said, sounding as normal as I could manage.

"Brandon, when are you coming home?" She asked, and I cursed under my breath. This wasn't the time for this.

"I don't know," I said, and she was silent a bit before speaking.

"Alpha Gabriel called requesting our land at the Maines border as payment," She said, and I pinched the bridge of my nose.

"And what did you say?" I asked her, trying to focus on what she was telling me.

"I told him you weren't around and had gone to the north. Then I offered him money, and he said what Hayland owed is more than that," she said, and I knew she was about to complain, so I braced myself for it.

"It is too much for me, Brandon. This is too much. You don't love me; you won't touch me