Chapter 55

• Konner checked the boys were buckled down doing their assignments. He grinned as he closed Paxton’s door, maybe they’d learned not to make the teacher angry.
• He needed to get back to the office, Reeves would be waiting to go over the rest of the contracts. Normally things would be winding down for the winter months, but with the Alliance clans on alert—there were clans joining, adding on, or like with Deacon, just starting out. They had enough jobs that they’d have to try to finish some during the winter.
• He remembered when they’d built the homes here at the Sanctuary, Auntie had thought he’d constructed too many. Now that several had tenants, there was hushed talk of which direction to take the complex when the last four were filled.