CHAPTER 57 Focus

　　~ RIG ~

　　I swung by the 24-Hour big box store and cleaned out their pet section with everything Cara had listed, plus a few extras that Natalie suggested.

　　By the time we reached the packhouse it was almost three in the morning, so I was surprised to see lights on in the living room, and even more surprised when I walked in the door and all my brothers were there, and awake.

　　“What’s going on?” I asked them. Had something else happened? We’d been out of range for most of the night and I hadn’t linked when I’d gotten close enough. Had that been a mistake?

　　Charlie and Jack were on the couch playing a video game, but they’d paused it the moment I walked in.

　　Mack, dressed in nothing but pajama pants, stood in the doorway to the kitchen, peering around me suspiciously, eyeing Natalie, then me, his gaze questioning.

　　“I had to bring her so dad wouldn’t question,” I muttered.