Chapter Sixteen

I’d been at home for a week now and Abeloth was itching to do something more than just training for a few hours every day. Lucas was out of town on business with Jasper and Chase was either at the university or with Melissa which left me pretty much on my own.

I was heading downstairs when I heard the knock on the front door. Absent-mindedly I opened it as I was on my way out as well. I needed to just get out and do something, anything.

“Good morning Elders,” I said and bowed my head slightly.

“Morning Ryder, is your father available?” Elder Michael asked.

“I’m sorry Elder, he’s out of town on business, we expect him back on Saturday afternoon,” I said to him.

“This is quite inconvenient,” Elder Cliff said as I invited them inside.

“What’s the problem?” I asked as they looked me up and down.

“We’re headed to a meeting not far from here, but alas without your father we might have to postpone. The Grey name holds a lot of weight in these areas and we were simply wanting to take him alon