again, stomping her foot like a child as

at his only su

cut me off eight months ago. You cut me off, Marian...Do y

er did..." She

nt away –"

ejected me," she pushed back,

Minnie–" He stated soft

before that! I thought we were–" she threw back

ontinued, unperturbed, remaining calm and s

he spat, the bile r

an! She screamed in her mind, and

d not have allowed you anywhere close to him –" he stated, his wolf pur

pped. Her voice was sharper than she had

refused to gi

e was his child, and therefore he could feel her emo

rich, richer than any other

led earlier that year, he had been able to repair

t from most wolves and had gifts that were.

between them. Fixed it, and fixed her, as b

e his powers, she had some sliver of it, deep down, a

grass, folding her leg

om her, gazing a

he shot at him, glancing sideways at him and then tur

n his mind, and she had felt it. The link betw

was coaxing her, calming her in the mind spa

er, he spoke with his own voice, "Okay. Tell m

ld him everything, her voice low, as she didn

pha? She mused as she spoke to hi

ha

rifted to him again, even as

her father experienced almos

ing her mother's limp body. His eyes were wi

t the end of that devastating battle, her fa

ther's arms as he rocked her, his tan, ripped body smeared with the evidence o

m her already bleeding hand. She wanted to go to he

, to take over from her father, a man she called 'uncle' all her

hroat as he rocked his dead wife, whose hand was holding onto her equ

in his human voice as his men drew close

snarled, sliding cl

something to him in the mind space. No one heard what he said

ciousness, Dax's words had bled int

and they shared a familial bond,

hear it. Those words

cle's' eyes snapped to her

rrowed his eyes at her, his wolf growli

d Dax growled loudly

ce, they both heard her father

ead, and she felt the

or him to hold on to her, but she couldn't. She was injured an

pped, and her left

d uncle and spat in their

off like he had done to many wolves during the fight, but her father had

ight hand under Dax's throat as he s

the sun, rise beyond the horizon this day." Dax's wolf,

is holding me back. Your claws can only wound me, not sto