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I’m proud of you, his mother exhaled.
I know—
I know you know, she snipped. But let me say it anyway.
Fine, he huffed as they walked along the edge of the clearing.
Not just because you stood up to council—which you could have warned us about, by the way—
You would have tried to stop me.
Of course, that’s what mothers do, she growled. But I’m really proud of you because you stood up for the omegas.
Anyone would have, he grumbled.
No, they wouldn’t have— and they didn’t, she growled. You were not the first wolf to cross through those packlands. But you were the first to do something about it. And not just something—a very hard, very ugly thing.
It’s what I do, he snuffed as they passed the halfway point of the large circle.
Yes, you do the hard, ugly things, she agreed. But
