Mitch's pov
A smile crossed my face as I read the sender address on the envelope the mail carrier had just delivered to me.
"Thank you," I smiled and went back into the castle, holding the letter tightly in my hands.
I knew what it contained: I'd been waiting for it for twenty-three years. The act that gave my daughter my surname, that finally made her mine.
I couldn't get a better birthday present.
I slowly walked down the stairs to the kitchens and grabbed a cold beer from the fridge, then sat down at the long wooden table. That was an event to celebrate: normally I would have shared it with Jocelyn and Ben, who just like me had long been waiting for when Emily would officially become part of our family, but they had to return to the US, to gather and bring our pack's and allies'
