Beck POV
I called the meeting for half past midnight, after Lainey had gone home.
She walked. Her boy was at work, forty minutes away. I had put the doctor's son on four legs to trail her to Alder Lane and come straight back, and I hated every second of not doing it myself.
By the time he slipped in the back door, The Hollow was full. It was every adult in the pack. Nobody was drinking.
Cade had his spot on the wall by the door, with his hat in his hand.
Matthew's mother stood up first.
"We got a postcard," she said. "From Tulsa. It has a horse on it."
"Does it say anything?" Gene asked.
"It says 'Sorry again.'"
"Well, that's something," his father said, from his slippers.
It was the last easy moment of the night.
The elder, Hollis, got to his feet. He was the same one who had w
