RayneI sit listening to Veronica and Brumilda indulging in gossip about some of the members of the GrayLeaf pack. I can’t say that all of it isn’t interesting. I sip my tea and pay close attention to names and everything else that I can remember. Brumilda is the mother of Alaska’s best friend who isn’t here because he and Max don’t see eye to eye. Veronica rolls her eyes at that, and says of course. “Why would he come? That would be foolish of him to start a fight with Max now when things are so uncertain.”They also mention all the people who have accompanied Alaska this time around. There is Lesley, who is Alaska’s cousin, and her parents, who are two women named Bertha and Maggie. It seems Bertha, who is her biological mother, had a mate who died when Lesley was little, and afterward she found herself a second mate, who is Bertha, who helped her raise Lesley. The last person in the group is a man named Bryan. He is a Gamma, yet he also has a place amongst the elites of the pack.
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