Chapter 80

Valen

POV

It was bucketing down as Marcus pulled up out the front so I could pick Valarian up from school. I stepped out of the car into a puddle; the gutters overflowing and spilling onto the footpath. The drains were blocked. The water flowed down the gutter, rushing like a

river and filling my shoe with water.

I growl, shaking my foot to get the water out of my shoe before racing for the school’s front door. Marcus waited behind in the car because he was on the phone still, the audio going through the car’s Bluetooth. My toes squelched in my shoes as I walked on the slippery floors to the primary office.

On the way here, I called ahead. So when I stepped into the small office, the secretary called up to his class the moment she saw me walk in to let the teacher know I was here to collect him.

“He will be right down, Alpha,” the secretary tells me, and I nod to her before walking around the room and looking at the school awards hanging on the brown brick walls. I shrugged my coat off, which was drenched from the downpour, and draped it over one arm as I looked around.