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“I’m good. I have just what I need for the wedding.”

“We all want to know where you’ll be going for your honeymoon,” Heather said.

“Not beachy kind of islands,” Maisie said. “Somewhere that wild wolves run in the forests.”

“How about going to the United States? To Glacier National Park in Montana?” Robert pulled out his phone and started searching for honeymoon vacations. “How about the Lodge at Whitefish Lake?” He showed her pictures of the lodge and the honeymoon suites.

“Oh, it’s beautiful.” Maisie smiled. “A Tiki Bar and Grill, Viking Falls Grill and Bar, a coffee bar, a beautiful swimming pool with a view of the lake, steam room, hot tub, hmm. We’re going to Glacier National Park for our honeymoon.”

Everyone cheered again.

They would have so much fun there, enjoying the comforts of the lodge while having fun foraging in the forest where they could fish without fishhooks and just enjoy dinner as wolves. It would be just perfect, and she couldn’t wait.

After that, she would be doing her photography and helping Anne with the inn, and Robert would be busy at the clinic, so they would be more tied down. She was glad they could take a whole week to enjoy being with each other before that.

Then everyone ordered their desserts, and Maisie said to Robert, “What about the guest list?”

“We’ll invite everyone in the wolf pack. Do you have anyone else in mind that you would like to invite?”

“Bruce and Mary Abercromby. They can stay at the inn.”

“Alright. No ulterior motive, right?”

She laughed. “Like getting one of Lady’s puppies? You should have said for sure that you wanted one.”

Anne chuckled. “I told you Maisie would want one.”

Maisie smiled. “The white Westie would be so cute with Mittens.”

“Then you could take pictures of them,” Anne said.

“Of course.”

After dinner, Maisie and Robert thanked Heather and her brothers for having the celebration at her shop, then some of them drove to the castle while Maisie and her family and Robert went to his house. All of them stripped, shifted, and ran as wolves to join the other wolves up at the castle.

A chorus of howls erupted from the growing pack. It was beautiful, Robert thought. He loved hearing Maisie’s howl, but her sister’s was similar and just as pretty. Her parents howled, the mother first and the father after that, so now everyone would know the new pack members’ howls.

Since Heather and Colleen were so pregnant, Robertneeded to stay with them and walk, just like their mates were doing. He had to, but he didn’t want Maisie and her family to feel they had to take a leisurely walk with them.

Anne barked, and her parents took off with her, the three of them joining wolves who were more mobile—Colleen’s cousins, Iverson, Veronica, and others.

Edeen was more mobile than Colleen and Heather because her pregnancy wasn’t as far along, but she was carrying twins also, so she joined the expectant mothers on their journey, along with her mate.

Robert was glad to see his sister’s and sisters-in-law’s mates sticking by their sides when he figured they would enjoy a good long wolf run otherwise.

They were so glad to have the wolf pack to run with, everyone howling for joy.

Chapter 19

The day of the open house had finally arrived. Robert had made sure everything was cleaned up. Maisie and Anne had come with him after making sure their new wolf hire of the MacQuarrie pack, Jeanette Sanderson, was managing the inn for now. Their mom and dad were staying at the inn but had been looking at homes for sale in the area and were arriving at the open house later. Anne hadn’t planned to be here for longer than three hours, so she could return to work at the inn. But Anne and Maisie wanted to help Robert hang up the rest of the animal photos first thing this morning, now that Veronica had finished framing for him. Maisie had brought her camera with her to take photos of the clinic. She would photograph the open house celebration at Robert’s house later. She had received the print photos for Colleen and Heather and had them at the house.

Chef wouldn’t be here for another hour with the food and beverages. Half an hour after that, they would be open for viewing the house and the clinic.

When Anne, Maisie, and Robert entered his clinic, Anne noticed right away that picture hangers were on the walls.Maisie smiled at her sister.

Then she and Anne began to hang the pictures that would fit the spaces the best while Robert took a couple of the photos of Colleen and Grant’s Scottish fold cats and Edeen’s fox terriers into the exam rooms and hung them up in there.

Maisie peered into the room he was in. “Oh, those look good in there.”