When Vanessa arrived home, her mother was not there. She was probably out on the hunt, maybe for animals or maybe for humans, she didn’t know. She tried not to be upset about not being able to have dinner with him tonight, he had to spend time with his family at some point and couldn’t just be with her all the time. She was sure that his father needed to talk to him about the future of the pack, which was more important than her. She couldn’t help but feel excluded from this part of his life, but she brought this upon herself. She could have easily opened up to him and his family sooner, then maybe she would be sitting at their table next to him. Somehow, that thought still made her feel uneasy, she didn’t know if it was because of the fact that she never had a proper family that would hav
