After lunch, Kari had a patrol along the southern border. She welcomed the excuse to get away from the pack house and avoid talking to anyone. Except Gabe, who was running the patrol with her. Luckily, Gabe wasn’t much of a talker, and she was left alone with her thoughts as they moved along the perimeter.
She worried about Joe, about the way he had stormed off after his father accused him of not wanting to lose to Evan. Joe rarely wanted to talk about anything involving his father. Mark was always hard on him, too hard, in Kari’s opinion. But the one time she had worked up the courage to tell her own father about the things Mark said and did, Ty had told her to leave it alone.
Family business, he had called it.
After an uneventful patrol, Nova left Gabe’s wolf behind and padded back to
