Page 94 of Reclaiming Home

Carys cleared her throat and helpfully stated, “I believe the exact phrasing was ‘dog fucker faggot bitch.’”

Four growls rose from us wolves, and she seemed very happy with herself. Kye facepalmed, and Rian snickered.

“Okay, settle down, boys,” Kye said, glaring at his sister. Then he smirked at me. “I mean, it’s not like he was wrong?”

Ben guffawed, and this time it was me who wanted to facepalm.

“Right, so here’s something interesting,” Holden said in his no-nonsense tone, even though he still looked a bit amused. “If a property is either abandoned by a pack or the Alpha passes away without the Alpha power moving onto someone else and there’s an absence of a will and testament, the property automatically transfers to the local town. Within two weeks of such event, the town has to hold an auction where the highest bidder gets the property and whatever is on it.”

“Wait, wait,” Rian said, leaning forward as he frowned. “So let’s say someone like Gerrell wants the pack’s property and gets us to leave. He can make sure nobody else bids for it or someone bids like twenty thousand dollars and he bids twenty thousand and one dollars, he gets it?”

“Is there anything about fair value?” I asked before Holden could respond.

He scrolled a bit more, then snorted. “Rian, you’re correct. There’s a mention that the law has been valid for over a hundred years, and it hasn’t been updated, and back in the day people didn’t necessarily have good money, but could drive away packs to get their properties for like a dollar.”

“I think that’s a good starting point, even if it wasn’t what he’s up to,” Kye said thoughtfully. “I mean we can’t be sure, but we need to start thinking about this logically and take every precaution just in case.

“Yeah, exactly,” Max piped up. “I don’t know what he’d want with this place, other than the property value might be higher than we think, but we better be sure he can’t yoink it out from under us.” He looked determined, and his brother squeezed him briefly.

The fact that Max was comfortable enough around us to use his voice like this felt damn good to me. I was proud of him, of Ben, and I’d told them earlier. The self confidence they both hadnow was day and night from when I’d first arrived in town, but the change was even more obvious in Max.

I dug out my phone and made a call.

“Brodie? What’s wrong?”

“Hey, Ayesha. I’m in need of some urgent legal stuff, nothing is wrong but it’s a precaution.”

Rian grinned. “She’s awesome,” he whispered to the others.

“Oh, absolutely. Baby girl? Go watch your movie, Mommy is going to talk to Uncle Brodie for a bit in the office.”

“Hi Uncle Brodie!” her Little, Kate, yelled.

“Tell Kate I said hi back,” I chuckled. Then I glanced at Rian. “And Uncle Rian says hi, too.”

I heard Ayesha forward the message for Kate, who squealed happily. Then I heard the door to Ayesha’s home office close.

“Okay, what can I do for you?”

I explained the situation to her . She’d known I was an Alpha now, because she’d met with Rian before he joined us in Pennsylvania, and she was on top of our case immediately.

“Okay, I’ll send you a template for a wolfy will. You can fill it in, get it notarized there, and send it back to me for safekeeping. Keep copies there in town as well with trusted people. Who do you want the property to go to in case of your demise?” Her tone was a bit snarky, but that was just who she was with me.

“In case of my death, my mate, Kye. Then after him it would be Rian, then Kye’s sister, Carys and my cousins Ben and Max jointly, after them, my beta Holden.”

Ayesha whistled. “That’s a decent lineup. Someone would have to get rid of a whole lot of people to get to the point where it can be auctioned off.”

“Oh, and add my sister Bella to the end of the list, too. Well, I’ll list them, but you know.”

“Absolutely.”

“I know she wouldn’t want it, but in case everyone else dies, she would keep it in the family. I know I don’t need to file it, and that it being somewhere people could produce it after my death would be enough, but I’d rather be able to say it’s all legal and set already.”

“Right, I understand. Okay, well if that’s all, I have a Little to entertain after I send you this template.”

I let my smile through into my voice. “That’s all. Thanks so much, hun. I know your time with your girl is precious.”

“That’s true, but friends are family, you know that.”

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