Chapter 94

Everly POV

Four Days Later

We held the funerals yesterday, and today I couldn’t cope with work, so I started the mural at the homeless shelter. I designed the sign and sent it off last night to my manufacturer. So when I walked into work to find everything handled and for once the sky showed no sign of rain, I got a head start on the mural on either side of the door leading into the old school.

I had two days until the council meeting, and two days after that, I had the challenge for my father’s pack. I was a little nervous about exactly what it was I was getting myself into with his pack, especially if it was bankrupt like Ava believed. Yet if I could restore a hotel to its former glory, I had no doubts I could dig them out of the hole my father dug.

I forgot how much I enjoy drawing and painting, though the old rendered brickwork was making it a b***h to stencil out the design with my paintbrush. I had done the background white like a canvas, though standing on a ladder while it was windy wasn’t ideal. Hearing a car pull up along the road behind me, I glance over my shoulder to see Valen’s car. He hops out, walking over to me.

“Everly, the wind is hectic today. Get down before you fall off,” Valen scolds, coming over and holding the ladder. I shake my head but climb down, unclipping the harness as I reach each step on the ladder.

“I have a harness,” I tell him, but he shakes his head.