Leena's Mistake

Leena had spent thirty minutes pretending to be interested in blowing up balloons for her party, but she really was just waiting for the right moment to make a run for it to her bedroom with her new phone. Not having a cell phone was annoyingly boring, but that wasn’t the main reason that she was in a rush to get to her room with the phone. The moment William tied the last balloon’s knot, she darted away and hurried to her room.

Once she got there, she went straight to the closet and found her hiding spot where she had hidden the piece of paper from Cody. It was an old receipt with his number written on the back, followed by a smiley face. She imagined that all the wolves in the house would think the smiley face was lame, but she found it sweet. He’d given her his number at the bakery hours earlier, but she worried she’d never had a way to get a hold of him without her own phone. All that changed when Rinc gifted her this new phone for he