Chapter 444

• I should have seen the previous night's dinner as a sign that I needed to stop over planning. Things usually didn't go according to plan, and we couldn't always control that. Even though I had prepared a lot of food, there were no leftovers. I could have felt fulfilled that they loved my dishes, but instead I felt frustrated, thinking I should have made more.
• After much discussion, Alpha Clark revealed that the clan leaders could bring up to two guests to this conference. He thought of John and Nicolas, so they came. I told him that Damian had asked me to go with him and suggested that he take Willow because of her mind-reading powers, but he looked away and changed the subject.
• After the excuse that Willow was too great to get involved in the wolves' petty problems, Willow herself contradicted him, highlighting the importance of the project and saying that, as one of the founders, she would do her best to help.