The Lightning Wolf Chronicles (Evelyn and Nadia) novel Chapter 187

Chapter 187: Don’t Mess It Up

Evelyn’s POV

“Evelyn! What’re we doing today? A little girl grabbed my hand, bouncing on her toes.

“Teamwork drills.” I messed up her hair. “Remember what I always tell you guys? One person can’t beat a team that’s got their act together.”

We spent the next couple hours putting the kids through their paces. Watching them give it their all made the knot in my chest loosen up a bit.

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When training wrapped up, everyone scattered to handle their own stuff. Sophia and Freya dragged Elliot and Milo back to school to keep digging into that

surveillance mess. Magnus and Lucian went to find Alpha Adam about supply issues. That left Orion and me heading to Silver Pines for magic practice.

“So what’s on the agenda today? Orion asked, carrying Juniper’s spell book.

“Earth and water.” I took a deep breath. “Juniper says I need to nail all the basic elements before moving up to the real stuff.”

We found a decent clearing and I dropped down cross-legged on the dirt. Eyes closed, I started the chanting thing. Pretty soon the ground started shaking,

and chunks of earth began floating up.

“Nice, Orion said from somewhere behind me. “Keep it steady.”

I tried making the dirt chunks move where I wanted them to go. Epic fail. They exploded like firecrackers, spraying soil everywhere.

Orion couldn’t help it – he cracked up laughing.

I opened one eye and glared at him. “Think it’s funny? You try it!”

I aimed a mud ball right at him on purpose. It blew up at his feet, splattering him with dirt.

“Evelyn!” He jumped back, but I was already lining up my next shot.

For the next hour, I kept “practicing my aim” by lobbing mud bombs at Orion. Sure, they kept exploding instead of actually hitting him, but at least I was getting better at making them blow up where I wanted.

“Okay, okay!” Orion threw his hands up. “I surrender! Let’s try water at least that stuff’s cleaner than mud.’

1 bit back a grin and walked over to the stream. This time I held my hand out toward the water, trying to feel how it moved.

“Water flows,” I said quietly, remembering what Juniper taught me. “You can’t for it. You gotta work with it.”

A ball of water slowly lifted from the stream, catching the sunlight and sparkling concentrated hard, keeping it floating in the air.

“Pretty cool, Orion said.

His voice broke my focus for just a second. The water ball immediately went rog and dumped itself all over Orion’s head.

We stared at each other, then both lost it laughing.

“You totally did that on purpose,’ Orion said, wiping water off his face.

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“Not that time! I was still laughing. That’s what you get for talking during my centration time.”

“Oh yeah? How about this? He lunged at me, trying to drag me into the water to

1 dodged, but he was faster and grabbed my wrist. After some tugging back and th, we both went down into the stream.

The freezing water made me shriek, but Orion pulled me against him before I could complain too much.

“Now we’re even,” he said right by my ear, and I could hear him smiling.

We splashed around like a couple of little kids until -?

Evelyn! What the hell are you doing? Get over here now we found something big!

Sophia’s voice slammed into my head, cutting through our water fight.

“What’s wrong?” I immediately got serious.

Acacia’s family house situation. We discovered some really interesting stuff. Hurry up

I looked at Orion, who was soaked and covered in mud. “We gotta go.”

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“Looking like this?” He gestured at his disaster zone appearance.

“It’s urgent.” I shrugged. “Besides, might be fun to see their faces when they figure out what kind of ‘training’ we were doing.”

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Twenty minutes later we showed up at the school office. Everyone we passed gave us weird looks two people dripping wet and covered in dirt definitely

stood out.

I pushed open the office door to find Sophia and Freya buried under a mountain of paperwork.

“What’s all this?” I walked to the desk, leaving a trail of water drops.

“Every single document about Acacia’s family house,” Freya said without looking p. “The original damage report, reconstruction application, every design

change…”

Hold up, she finally glanced up and did a double-take at our appearance. “What happened to you two? Magic training can do that?”

“Training stuff,” I said vaguely. “You know how it is things get messy.”

Messy.” Sophia repeated with a smirk. Right. Whatever kind of magic practice two were up to, check this out.”

She pointed at a document. Original damage assessment. Says right here mine structural damage, estimated repair time three to four months.”

“But look at this,’ Freya jumped in, a month later there’s suddenly this supplementary report claiming they found serious foundation problems requiring a complete rebuild.”

‘And guess who signed off on this supplementary report?

“The ‘expert’ Acacia’s dad brought in,” I said, putting the pieces together. They panned this from the start. Use Pack money to build themselves a mansion.”

“That’s not even the best part,’ Sophia continued. “This new house is three times bigger than the original. And every single design change jacks up the price.

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They’re stealing Pack funds, Orion said, his voice going cold.

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