"And then she had chocolate cake and ice cream for dessert."

I could sense his amusement over the link. "We need to take Vicki out running again to work off those calories."

"School starts in the morning, she'll burn it off with the others." I was serious about her not returning to public school, and this weekend had solved the problem completely. The wolves of the former Welch Pack homeschooled through fifth grade, and Vicki would slide in with them. Paul and Lois Temple would resume the Pack school, which would move to my basement. Their classroom lessons would be alternated with wolf training that Anita and some of the...