Semua Bab The Alpha's Christmas Sin: Bab 71 - Bab 73

Ava’s POVChristmas was three weeks away.Jamie told me because she knew I hadn’t been tracking it. The weeks since the garden had blurred into each other with that thick, full quality time gets when every day carries enough weight to matter. Nothing had slid past without texture. Every sunrise had registered. Every quiet coffee on the veranda, every evening in the piano room, every Thursday morning phone call from Marcus that ended before it got awkward, all of it had stacked up into something that felt less like survival and more like living.The wolf world was still reorganizing. Formal acknowledgments kept trickling through Luca's monitoring system, pack after pack finding its footing relative to the Ashmoon claim. Some were gracious. Some were cautious. A few read like they'd been drafted through gritted teeth but they came. That was the point.Celeste called twice a week. Celeste had been in regular contact since the pack reckoning, the elder wolf taking an active interest in th

Ava’s POVOne week until Christmas Eve, and Jamie showed up with a tree strapped to the roof of a borrowed car.It wasn’t a massive one, just a modest little fir that fit snugly in the corner of the library without demanding we rearrange the furniture. She hauled it through the front door herself, pine needles scattering across the floor, her cheeks flushed from the cold and her eyes bright with that particular ferocity she got when she'd decided something was happening and heaven help whoever stood in her way.Luca opened the door for her. He looked at the tree then at Jamie. Something flickered across his usually impassive face which disappeared as soon as it came and he stepped aside without a word.She set it up in the library corner with the same efficient competence she used for display arrangements at Petals. Stepped back. Cocked her head. Found the angles. Nodded once, satisfied."Good," she declared."It's a tree," Theo said from the hallway, blinking at it."It's a Christmas