“Do not let him get to you,” Ivan said.
“He was angry,” I replied.
“Not at you,” Ivan said. “At me.”
That didn’t make it better. “We are supposed to be working together to protect Leo.”
“And we are.”
“If he doesn’t feel Leo is safe here, he might want us to go back to his pack,” I said, voicing some of my suspicions. “Maybe it’s the strain on him, from his distance with Leo, that’s making him act so angry. If we allow him to see Leo more, then…”
I didn’t fully know if that would help, but I wasn’t sure what else to do. The thought of Leo going back to Gideon’s pack house right now, with all the vultures surrounding it was too much to bear. I would follow of course. I would protect my son with my life, but things would be so much more difficult there than they were here.
“Even if Gid
