Chapter One-Sixty-One: Mooch

Alba M. Crane

"How is my baby?"

"Which one?"

I ask as Violet settles in the car, and the drive to Rebecca’s mansion begins.

"Not you, obviously.”

She utters as she throws the length of her hair over her shoulder.

“You decided to leave me behind in Chrysalis."

"Oh please, I asked you to come with me. But you refused; I almost thought you didn’t like us enough to want to come to Ketria with me.”

I utter, feigning sadness with an exaggerated pout of my lips.

"I like you, I like Sharon, hell, I may make some wolf friends that I may grow to like during this party, but let's be honest, I am not cut out for this ‘world’ of howling at the full moon.”

“We do not howl at the moon.”

“You probably should; you don’t even hunt as a pack anymore like the olden days; that’s why you picked up the habit of smoking.”

“Okay. Is this going to turn into a lecture? I would rather it doesn’t, so I will move on; how are Beatrice and George?”

“Great, interestingly enough, she is thinking of coming back here t