*Barkley*
For the longest time, the most courageous she-wolf I have ever known has been my mother. She married young, at sixteen, a man far older than she, the Alpha of Moonshadow. She gave him an heir. When he lost interest in her, she took a lover. She gave him a son, a carefully guarded secret until recently, with only the immediate family now aware of the truth.
When Moonshadow died, he left her destitute, and she promptly married my father. He perished shortly after I was born. I remember little of the man who sired me. My mother, however, has been a dominant force in my life. As well as a scandalous influence. My father left her well off. She can do as she pleases. What she pleases is to take young lovers.
But now another is threatening to usurp my mother’s place as the most cour
