Chapter 159 - Jamal

We roll up to the diner where we’re meeting Chloe, Casen, and Severn about five minutes before the meet time. I can see them through one of the windows, a waitress setting down drinks.

“Thank the Goddess they’re sitting down to eat. When was the last time we had cooked food that didn’t taste like a fucking tin can?” Gregory says, relief evident in his puffing out of his breath. He quickly unbuckles his seatbelt and hops out of the car.

I’d laugh at him if I didn’t feel the exact same way. Gregory and I are the two meeting up with the newly formed trio to take them back to our group of trackers. There are about 10 of us in the group. Three can go home now that these three are here. Well, after a day or two of training and debriefing.

We walk into the diner, signaling to the waitress that we’re heading over to CCS’s table.

I extend my hand out to the one wolf I’d actually met, Case. “Hey, guys. How was the trip?”

Clasping my wrist with his hand, we greet each other in the