Free Fox Rematch (The Madison Wolves Book 10) by Robin Roseau Page A

but looking worried. Angel and Scarlett looked nervous, too.
    “Stay here,” I told Lara. “Enjoy the view for a minute.”
    I left her standing there and walked to stand in front of my three friends. I moved into their personal spaces, my tiny little fox looking up at them, and looked at them fiercely.
    “This is the most beautiful house I have ever seen, and it could not be more perfect.”
    Elisabeth’s eyes darted briefly to Lara.
    “She agrees with her mate about the beauty of the house but fears her sister paupered herself to make this happen, and she is upset.”
    “I hated the grocery store chain. Absolutely hated it. I let it run itself, and it wasn’t going anywhere. Lara you know I hated it. Father left it to me because when I was a child, I liked working the soda fountain counter, so I was always asking questions about it. But I hated being upper management. Good riddance. And now I don’t have to manage your share anymore, either.”
    Lara turned around. “But Elisabeth-”
    “Hush,” she said. “I don’t spend a dime on anything. I got a very, very good price. I am still, by almost any standards, a wealthy woman. I have enough money to start a new business, if I want to, but frankly, I don’t see how I can possibly devote attention to a business and be head enforcer at the same time. And I love being the head enforcer. It is what I was born to do, and you know it.”
    “But-”
    “And this is where I want us to be,” she said. “I love it up here, too. The parcel I am buying for myself is smaller, and we are separated by Vivian, but it’s a short run, and we’ll put a road across all the properties so we can travel without using the highway. I have enough money to buy that land and build the house I want for it, and I will have your shares from the grocery stores as my nest egg. I will invest it carefully. Pack will lose my tithe. Tough.”
    I looked at Angel and Scarlett. “Did you pay anything you couldn’t afford?”
    They looked uncomfortable.
    “You will go to college!” Lara thundered in full alpha mode.
    They both cringed, but then they stood up straight. “The papers you signed made Hadley Smith the executor of our escrow accounts,” Angel said.
    “I’m going to kill her!”
    “Hush,” I said. “Let her explain before you fly off the handle.”
    “I don’t want a doctorate,” Angel said. “Scarlett and I will get our four year degrees. Hadley made us keep enough in our accounts to pay for a four-year program for me and a master’s degree for Scarlett. Alpha, I have already talked to the head enforcer-”
    “No!” Lara said.
    “And she has indicated she thinks I would make a fine enforcer. Your mate also thinks so.”
    “You knew about this?” Lara thundered, turning to me.
    “Calm down, Lara, it’s bad for the babies. No. It was something I said yesterday, with how well she was helping with me. I could see how she was leaning. Now, let them finish.”
    She growled.
    “Hadley let us use the rest to buy some of the land. Our money went into a general fund, we don’t own a specific piece, but we have an agreement that we will be allowed to build our own home here. So we helped buy land.  Land we love.”
    Lara turned to Scarlett. “I know you think you know who designed the house, Lara. You are wrong. I designed it.”
    Lara stared at her.
    “Not alone, of course,” said Scarlett. “Clearly, he helped me. I told him what I wanted, and he helped me with all the engineering choices, and helped me solve some of the problems. I didn’t donate a dime to the house itself, but it’s my design.”
    “You designed this?” Lara asked in a small voice, and then pulled Scarlett into a tight hug. “Honey, it’s beyond beautiful.”
    “We started with a list of requirements, and we had the site survey. I did a lot of drawings, just rough things. I knew right where I wanted the deck, and we worked backwards from there. I couldn’t have done it alone. I didn’t