Chapter 209: Ten years later

Ten years later.

"CASE CLOSED!"

Erick stood up from the table and smiled as his supervisor shook hands with his client, congratulating her on winning the case.

It has been ten years since the last confrontation with Harding and Rehan. And since then, it has been quiet. Erick and the others have graduated from highschool and were in their prospective career fields. Although they have their own jobs, they were still in contact with one another, especially those from the same pack.

Erick and Amber were still together (of course!) but they do not have the plans to get married just yet. This was because Erick wanted to pass the bar exam before proposing to Amber, who agreed and supported him. But the two did get engaged a few years back.

At first, their families did not support their decision. They argued that it was better for them to get married immediately. However, Amber refuted their arguments, saying she was satisfied with the status for now. She knows how much Erick wanted to become a lawyer so she wanted to help him achieve his dreams, even if their wedding might take a couple of more years. She understood that their families, especially her family were concerned about her. But she believed that Erick and her were even more close than any other married couples. So she did not mind at all, especially since they lived together now.

As for their friends, Roel still works as a chef and there were stories about him being chosen as the next owner since the owner has no heirs to leave the restaurant to. Jeayan was a housewife where she worked full-time taking care of the house and also has spent her free time at the packhouse, taking care of the other packmates' pups. The two had gotten married immediately after Jeayan had graduated from highschool. At first, Roel wanted to wait for her to finish her college education but she disagreed, saying that she did not want to wait any longer. Unfortunately, the two don't have any children yet.

Hamish, on the other hand, now worked as an Inspector of the Police, following his father's footsteps. After Makena moved to Burkendall town a couple of years ago, the two got married in a huge ceremony, combining the two packs; the Kendall and the Cairin pack. It was quite a happening ceremony that it took nearly a week for the event to end.

Since Makena does not have much experience when it comes to a job, Mary invited her to join her in her bakery business. It was then Makena realized she has the knack for baking as well. Currently, she was pregnant with their first child.

At that moment, Erick was with his supervisor at the town court where they had just finished a case on child custody. Their client was a single woman who got sued by her ex-boyfriend, wanting to get full custody of their child. There were times that the custody would automatically go to the mother but because the father had argued about the fact that he has enough income to support his child, compared to his ex-girlfriend, the case was raised.

At first, the woman felt like she would not win the case and with no choice, she sought help from her friend, who was also a friend of Erick's supervisor.

Erick's supervisor was actually a human being named Murray Jentzen, who specialized in cases such as child custody. He was a close friend of Coach Elijah, who had introduced the two of them. After knowing that Erick has no intention to continue playing football as his career but instead, had an interest in law, he then invited Murray to meet his star player. It was fortunate that the two of them had hit off and Murray had immediately taken Erick as his associate where he would be teaching him the ropes.

In regards to the case, Erick was very much involved where he did some investigations and more, resulting in them discovering that the ex-boyfriend of the client was actually a man who had lots of debts and was planning to sell his son to another family. With this evidence, Murray was able to win the case for the woman. He was grateful and pleased with Erick's work that he wanted to invite him for a drink for celebration.

They were outside the courthouse when Murray invited his young associate. However, to his surprise, Erick rejected his offer.

He had shook his head, saying that he needed to get home. Ever since the case has started, he hasn't been at home much and has missed his alone time with his mate.

Murray chuckled. He knew Erick was a shifter and that he hadn't mated with his beloved. He once asked out of curiosity, apologizing first for being crude, why he did not mate with his beloved? Surprise, respect and admiration poured out from Murray for the young man when he had heard his answer, saying that the young shifter would rather wait for the wedding. He wanted it to be special, knowing that he would not fall to his primal urges.

Murray then told him perhaps next time they can go for some drinks and that he could invite Amber along. Erick nodded and thanked him. The two then went separate ways.

Few minutes later, Erick finally arrived at his house. It was a house that was given by his parents. It was a modest two-storey house with a small porch, painted in white and topped with a red roof. There was a small garden in front of the house; it was where Amber usually did her gardening, where she planted vegetables such as tomatoes and chilis.

At first, Amber's parents disagreed with them living together when they were not married yet. But after much reassurance from Erick's parents, saying that they will be staying close to their house and that they will be staying in different rooms, Eren and Syden finally conceded. However, sometimes Eren would sneakily send Remi off to Erick and Amber's house, with the excuse of wanting them to take care of him while they were off to work, when in reality, he wanted Remi to be a chaperone.

Erick did not mind Remi's presence, though. Because he knew that there were times when Amber would miss her family. So with Remi around, she won't become homesick.

Standing in front of his house, Erick let out a small smile of content as he could hear his beloved's voice talking happily with her brother.

'This is life…'