And she too was shivering, slightly sick but not to the degree of their mother.
“Hmm,” Vic murmured as he looked at his wife and daughter, “Is there a bug going around? You girls look worse than you did yesterday.”
“I think I am getting better,” Vika said as she sat down at the table. And she really had: Vrak had stopped experimenting on her a few days ago. Her early onset estrus should be calming down by now.
“And you?” Vic asked his wife, who only shook her head.
“Just an early estrus is all,” She told him with a faint smile. Vrak had to stop herself from chortling. She had done far, far more than just inflict an early estrus on her step mother!
“Well, sorry for not being able to help you with it,” Vrak’s father scratched his head.
“It’s alright, you just got her yesterday, you were tired,” Hina gracefully allowed, even as sick as she looked. That was one of the things Vrak loved about her stepmother; her poise under pressure.
Oh how she longed to break it.
“Well anyway,” Vic said as he took a seat with his wife, “What’s the play here Vrak? Want to bribe me for supplies? Maybe want me to send some help your way? Cause if you do…it’s working.”
Vrak smile at her father, “Nah dad, the storefront is fine.”
“Well,” Vic said as he chewed on some egg, “If you say so.”
Vic was a rich and successful Wolf, one who had married and impregnated Hina as soon as Vrak’s mother had died in childbirth. And why shouldn’t he? Hina’s family were loaded after all. Years later people still scoffed at it, whispering that he had been having an affair with Hina even as Vrak’s mother was giving birth to her. Vrak herself didn’t particularly care if that was the truth. Why shouldn’t her father discard what wasn’t useful anymore?
But as much as he may have wanted to just give his business to his children, even he had to justify to his board the capability of the fruit of his knot. Hence the small store front he had bought for Vrak to man while she was in school. Just a little something he could present to the board to get his daughter in place.
What he didn’t know was that the storefront was already in the black for the year, and had been a few months into the teen wolf manning it the year before. It sold to people still, sure, but the futa wolf girl had connived to make it something of a distribution center for bigger stores, wedging herself as middle man that only had to flag her shipments to the “right customer”. Which meant she didn’t really have to be there at all after all.
She would give her father back a profitable business, but not the one he had given her. But that was beside the point.
The point was that this breakfast did have an ulterior purpose.
“However,” Vrak said as she picked her own fork, “I am being told that the health inspector didn’t like how few restrooms it had. Something about the two restrooms in it not being big enough for a store it’s size.”
“Oh?” Vic said with a raised eyebrow, “did he now?”
The inspector was an old known item to them both, someone who Vic paid a lot over the years to look the other way. The fact that he had made a stink about the restrooms in a building barely bigger than the living area in their house just meant that he wanted another injection of cash, but it was at least something they knew would happen from time to time..