239 Grace: Dazed
“Dylan still hasn’t contacted you?” I push Rudolph. No, wait–Randy.
But now I’m seriously pondering it.
Giving up on the brain–twisting requirements of this mission, I check the messages Caeriel’s sent me, already dreading what he’s sent.
“Nuh!”
Sweet Ron grabs koala–Bun without changing his expression, completely calm as he says, “Come on, Bun–Bun. I’ll feed you all the pancakes you want, but you have to let Grace go.”
But they turn out to be surprisingly… helpful.
Each pancake has even been helpfully pre–cut into squares.
Super Nanny returns to the kitchen with a cheerful whistling tune, burn a little with his enthusiasm. and my cheeks
“Bun, we should use a fork-”
I took one last night, after Caine left, for… reasons.
Huh.
Nonparticular reasons.
Which I don’t.
I’m starting to regret going with Lyre when I first met her. I bet if I didn’t, none of this would have happened and I wouldn’t have this stupid App giving me impossible missions and taking away an entire twelve hours despite me being the victim of whatever glitch they created in their own App.
Deciding to give up on being clean, I let Bun do whatever she wants as I return my focus to my phone, forcefully yanking my brain out of the gutter into functional I Have
Shit to Do mode.
The mission wouldn’t worry me so much if it wasn’t for the time limit, and the time limit wouldn’t worry me quite as much if it was really twenty–four hours.
It’s a list of locations with what he says are “elevated energy signatures“, finally giving me some direction to go with my mission. Which only makes it weirder still that they’re sending me to do something he can clearly do in a snap of his fingers, but I have to remind myself that this is training.
“Nuh.” A mouthful of eggs and cheese dribbles out of her mouth with her going to need another shower.
“…Grace?”
response.
Seriously, why is his name the only one I can’t remember? It isn’t that strange.
The App has only been up for a few minutes, but the mission was assigned a little less than twelve hours ago. Which means I’m basically being penalized for not having a working App up until then. How is this fair? 1
A child psychologist might help, but I’m not entirely certain a human psychologist is going to understand how very different life is here on the supernatural side…
I swear I never saw this before.
“Uh–I’m fine. I’m not really hungry.” There’s another pile of pancakes on the counter, this time smaller than what Dylan made yesterday. Turns out all the food Dylan made was for Super Nanny, who eats basically a house and a half’s worth of food at every meal. Something about metabolism or… something. I don’t know. I wasn’t paying attention.
Right, his name is Randy.
My head aches again as I look through the notifications, my eyes finally landing on the times associated with them…. Ah.
Shit.
“Nuh!”
“Here you go, Bun. Your favorite pancakes!” Super Nanny says cheerfully, either not hearing or straight up ignoring my groan as her fingers squish into a particularly syrupy section.
“Do you want a fork?”
My back stiffens as my eyes snap to Ron’s face. “Wha–how did you know?”
Bun immediately reaches out and grabs a handful, shoving it into her face with gusto. She’s wrapped around me like a koala and refuses to even let Super Nanny touch her.
Bun shrieks as soon as he reaches out, smacking at his hands with syrup and egg–covered hands of her own. “Nuh!” Then she wraps her arms around me and buries her sticky face into my neck, determined to stay glued to me.
[These messages are being monitored for the safety of all Guardians in the Trainee Program. Inappropriate Mentor activity can be reported via the help menu…]
But Super Nanny just pats an egg–covered Bun on the head before heading back into the kitchen to finish cooking, which makes it honestly impossible to tell.
But the countdown the app has provided says something very different. It lists my remaining time at 12:32:53 which is not twenty–four hours, no matter how you look at it.
Culminating in about a fifteen–minute temper tantrum over the thirty seconds it took me to go pee, and no, it wasn’t worth the fight.
Then my eyes narrow on the tiny, almost illegible text under all the messages.
“Did you want waffles or pancakes?” He frowns a little, inspecting me with a little more care than normal. “You look pale. Is everything okay?”
Another notification comes up as I’m death–glaring the countdown.
Didn’t Lyre say the App doesn’t give us missions we can’t handle?


“Ah.” He smiles in a way that’s a little too understanding. “I understand. I’ll leave you to your thoughts, then, ma’am. Please think of our High Alpha as much as you wish.”
I wasn’t thinking about Caine like that, okay?
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The readers' comments on the novel: Grace of a Wolf (by Lenaleia)
I really like the story and the characters of this book. I hope it's completed or will be soon, not dragging over and over....
What kind of trouble? What was the trigger for Brax's anger?...
Caine is her mate and he adores her, she shouldn't fear him like that and above all shouldn't show the kids that she's afraid 😮💨...
Not convinced this lie is a good idea. Too many variables that could make the plan go wrong: Andrew's loyalty? He knows Grace and Caine are mate. The kids? You're teaching the kids to hide or lie on something......
It's so funny how quickly Caine adopted the kids 😊...
The big Lycan king with a baby in his arms....Jack-Eye will so much laugh at the sight 🤣🤭...
Because me being always the rational person I am, who overthink everything always wonder: do you have that many clothes to afford ripping them off each time? Making them dirty with fluids? Certainly you won't go around like that!?...
She's slowly managing to control the energy flow 🥳 but how slowing it has a worse effect on him?...
On the other end, he should tell Grace why he is preventing the kids, especially Bun, to have contacts with her....
Cain's suddenly so funny I his daddy mood. He definitely must not leave again and stay with "the family" to keep his mood stable! 😊...