Chapter 32: Martin POV Perhaps old age and circumstances were making me soft but I didn't care. I had lost my wife and my oldest son, and now I was potentially going to lose Alec or Gary. I tried to reason with my boy but he wasn't being open minded. There was a reason I did what I did and said what I said. I wanted my family alive. What good would more bloodshed do any of us? What was there to gain from revenge? One moment of satisfaction? It would never last. I had to apologise to Alec to get him to stay on the phone with me long enough to warn him about Gary. He was still furious we would move against the werewolves but I explained that it was our nature the way he himself acted on instinct when his mate was threatened. "Alec, I'm sad over Joe but I'm proud of you for standing up

