Chapter 40 Looming War

• RAYNE
• I sat up and removed my headphones. I believed I heard the doorbell. There was silence for a brief moment, but just as I was starting to doubt myself, it rang again, and I got out of bed, heading out of the room, wondering who it could be.
• I was alone in the house. Oleander and his parents had attended the pack meeting to banish the evil family that had nearly burned me alive, as well as to discuss Valeria and her sons' arrival and how the pack could help them.