Madeline:
“Mommy, where did you go with Elara today?” Gina asked, clinging to my legs as I sat tying the pendant around Bodhi’s ankle.
After the disaster with Elara, I had learned my lesson. But I also knew that seeing these pendants again on their necks would raise questions from Elgin. He would ask why I still needed them to wear these when it was already out in the open that he was their father.
So, I had to be clever. I decided to tie them around their ankles, and the excuse I planned to give him was that I didn’t want anyone else to know they had active wolves in the future, because that would become a problem once I went back to my land.
“Mommy, she said she was with Uncle Elgin,” Bodhi uttered, moving aside so Gina could sit and I could tie the pendant around her ankle.
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