#Chapter 185: Unwanted Encounters

Tessa

The pack headquarters’ courtyard was unusually quiet today. Normally, Gretel and I would be sitting at our usual table, sharing lunch and gossip while the sun warmed our shoulders. But she’d called out sick this morning, which left me eating alone.

I didn’t mind the solitude, though. It gave me a chance to dig deeper into the book on elementals that Gideon and I had checked out from the libr