Her Cloak Was Sewn With Blessings, While I Had Nothing Chapter 08

Her Cloak Was Sewn With Blessings, While I Had Nothing Chapter 08

With Drystan and the Frostveil healers looking after me, I healed faster than anyone expected.

And on the Greyfang side, everything came apart.

Drystan did exactly what he said he would.

Frostveil pulled every investment and guarantee and canceled its long-term orders with the Arden

businesses.

Garrick’s cash flow broke within weeks.

Banks, suppliers, and private creditors started showing up one after another.

Kieran had been living off my mortgage subsidies for years, and once the Frostveil money stopped he defaulted fast, and the house went into foreclosure.

He had to move his wife and pup back into the old Greyfang house.

Brielle wasn’t doing as well as anyone thought, either.

When she married into the Silverpine Pack, what her husband’s family wanted wasn’t only her Alpha bloodline. It was the Frostveil backing standing behind Greyfang.

With that gone, her husband’s family changed toward her overnight.

Everyone used to hand her whatever she wanted.

Now, people said out loud that all she did was spend, and some of them called her marriage a

worthless alliance for Silverpine.

The Greyfangs had gotten used to somebody filling every gap for them, and once my money stopped, their lives turned into a knot nobody could untie.

They called and messaged without stopping, and they passed word through Pack members we both

knew.

I changed my number.

I blocked all of them on every private account.

And the world finally went quiet.

That afternoon, I sat in the sun by the floor-to-ceiling window with a newborn pup care manual

open on my lap.

Drystan brought over a plate of cut fruit and set it on the side table.

“Try a strawberry. They’re sweet.”

He held one up to my mouth.

I Dit into it.

The juice broke across my tongue.

“Sweet?”

“Sweet.”

He sat down beside me and glanced at his phone.

“Kieran’s house goes to auction tomorrow.”

My hand paused on the page and then turned it.

“Does it.”

“Brielle took her pup back to the old Greyfang house yesterday. Silverpine told her to stay with her

parents for a while.”

I looked up at him.

“Why are you telling me this?”

He put the phone down and took my hand.

“I want you to know that everything they’re facing is what comes of leaning on somebody else for

years.”

“You don’t owe them any guilt.”

I closed my hand around his and smiled.

“I stopped feeling guilty a long time ago.”

Some people weren’t ready to give up, though.

On a weekend morning, I was down on the living room rug playing soft blocks with my pup.

The doorbell went off in a hurry.

The nanny checked the video doorbell, and her face turned uncomfortable.

“Luna, it’s the Greyfangs.”

The smile went off my face.

Drystan came out of the study.

“I’ll have the territory guards move them along.”

“Don’t.”

I stood up.

“Leaving them at the door forever doesn’t accomplish anything.”

“We’ll finish it in one go.”

The door opened.

The Greyfangs stood outside, and none of them looked the way I remembered.

Garrick’s hair had gone much whiter, and his back had a curve in it.

Maris had stopped putting herself together the way she used to, and there was nothing under her

eyes but exhaustion.

Brielle had her pup in her arms, and her eyes were swollen from crying.

Maris went straight down on her knees when she saw me.

“Sable, I’m begging you.”

“Help your father.”

“The company can’t hold on. Suppliers and creditors are at the door every day and we’re out of

options.”

Garrick’s eyes were red, too.

“Sable, we were wrong before.”

“Give Greyfang one more chance.”

Brielle stepped forward and set the fur-blessing cloak on the coffee table.

“Sable, I know I was wrong.”

“I shouldn’t have taken everything like it was owed to me, and I shouldn’t have treated your giving

in like it was the natural order of things.”

“The cloak is yours.”

“Help the family. Please?”

I looked at the cloak that had once made me believe my family would finally bless me.

It had dust on it now, and the marks a pup leaves on everything.

“Brielle.”

“What do you think that thing stands for now?”

She froze, and the tears came again.

I looked at the three of them.

“Are you here begging me because you finally understand how you hurt me, or because you’re out of money?”

All three faces changed at once.

Maris hurried to answer.

“Sable, how can you say that? We’re your parents. We did overlook you at the hospital, but you’ve always been the sensible one and you’ve always been able to take it. You once sold jewelry Drystan gave you to cover Kieran’s loan. How were we supposed to know you’d take one room and one medical card this far?”

I couldn’t help laughing.

I had given ground over and over to earn a scrap of family feeling.

None of it had ever registered with them as love.

It had been registered that Sable will always give in.

It was the confidence that let them cross my lines again and again.

Garrick got to his feet and pointed at Drystan.

“And Drystan, I don’t understand him either. I’m his Luna’s father and Kieran is his Luna’s brother. Business between Packs runs on alliance and mutual support. He pulls his money out overnight, and he isn’t worried the other Packs will say Frostveil turns on its own?”

That was the moment I finally understood all of it.

It explained how they had dared take my medical card, hand my birthing suite to Brielle, and send me across the city on an errand days before I delivered.

In their thinking, I had never been a daughter who needed protecting.

I was torn between Greyfang and Frostveil.

A tie that was supposed to stay obedient and stay useful forever.

“You’ve got one thing wrong.”

Drystan came to stand beside me.

“For three years I let Frostveil’s money hold Greyfang up, and it wasn’t because I owed you

anything. It was because Sable still cared about you.”

He put an arm around my shoulders, and there was no heat left in his voice.

“She was willing to call you family, so I was willing to treat you like family. She’s done with you now. To me, Greyfang is a failing operation with bad credit and nothing more.”

Garrick’s legs went, and he dropped back onto the couch.

I went to the coffee table and picked up the fur cloak.

Then, in front of all of them, I dropped it into the trash can beside it.

“Is it clear now? I’m not your withdrawal account anymore. And I’m not the Greyfang daughter who’s always supposed to step aside for Brielle.”

“See them out.”

The territory guards came forward and walked them out.

Maris’ crying broke apart on the other side of the door.

I stood where I was and watched it close.

That door shut out more than their voices.

It shut out the last thing I still held onto from that twisted version of family.

I turned and picked my pup up off the rug.

He giggled up at me, and there was nothing in those clear eyes but my own reflection.

I bent and kissed his forehead.

That was enough.