Chapter 45 Storm

Overhead, the clouds had started to roll in. The summer weather was starting to change from calm and warm, to windy and unforgiving. As a looming threat started to form everyone underneath the sky almost seemed... oblivious. Too wrapped up in their own struggles to see or predict what would happen in a few short hours.

*Wyatt*

Finally! The last of the payroll transfers are done! Before I go to start on the accounts payable for the weekly food budget a knock on the door snaps my concentration. “Come in.” I said curtly.

The door opens slowly, and Mason comes inside. “Hi. Wyatt... I...”

“Beta.” I corrected him. “And what do you want, Mason?”

He came in, looking around at once was supposed to be his office, passed down from his dad, and his dad’s dad. But now it wasn’t. It was mine. “I... need help.” He admitted, his head down. “I... know I messed up. I had the world and threw it away.”

I remained silent, letting him admit his sins.

“But. I want her back. I NEED her back. I d