Ellis: Emerson Wolves ― Paranormal Wolf Shifter Romance by Kathi S. Barton

Author:Kathi S. Barton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-10-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

In the way of the pack, Pete’s funeral was held the next afternoon. Dawn watched all the people walk by the open grave and toss in memories for him to take with him on his run in the sky. It was perhaps one of the most moving funerals she’d ever witnessed, not that she’d seen that many.

Each person who walked by the grave would either toss in an envelope or a flower. Some, most of them, put in both. The flower would die, of course, and the seeds from it would mark the grave of a wonderfully amazing man. The envelopes were for him.

“Each person is to think of a time when Pete helped them with something. Or a fond memory of him that they will remember forever.” Ellis explained it to her as they dressed for the meeting. “They write it out with their own hand and then seal it in an envelope that will be sealed with their own blood, not saliva. We believe that when he gets to his great run in the sky, he’ll pull them out and read them, touching the lives of the people once again by sending them a good wish or a memory of his own.”

“Will people have bad memories of him? I mean, can they do that? Write it out and put it there if they didn’t like him?” He thought about it for a few minutes before he told her that he supposed anything was possible. “Pete was kind to me. When we were at the airport, he was there and told me…he said I was as pretty as a speckled pup under a little red wagon. Then he told me that he thought my jelly was the best he’d ever tasted, and that it was better than his own mother’s.”

Ellis pulled her up from the bed where she’d been sitting and held her. The man had been so nice and now he was gone.

And it seemed that she wasn’t the only one who thought so. Hunter stood up after everyone had gone by to pay their respects.

“Pete was…in a word…a pistol.” Everyone laughed. “The first day here most of you know that he saved my life. Had he not taken it into his head to be shot for me, I’m sure that things at the police station would have taken a different route than they did. He was a great man and will be missed by us all.”

Several other people got up to say a few words. Most of them had a funny tale to tell; some told what he’d done for them that no one had known about. Every story told Dawn of the man she’d only known briefly, and made her realize what a loss it was going to be for her to have not known him well.

As the grave was filled, each of the immediate pack members, mostly the Emerson men, putting their backs into closing it up, Dawn helped bring out the food to the tables that had been set up for the feast.

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