Phoenix Maplewood Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit

She expected Tavi to answer with excuses and apologies. Instead, the beta female told her to get over it, as if all that Reek had done was bring her the wrong colour rabbit, or call her a fat whale. The alpha female's ears flew back and fire sparked in her indigo eyes, until her gaze was wholly consumed by blue flame. She heard everything Tavi said but acknowledged none of it for the time being. She neither accepted the idea that Reek loved her after what he had done nor accepted that it was just a mistake. She'd watched him cheat twice, once with her and once on her, and wasn't stupid enough to consider it a mistake twice.

Instead of responding to Tavi's insistence that Reek loved her and the implication that she was overreacting, Saena roared, "you shouldn't have let it happen!" at Tavi, who should have known better and should have spurned Reek's advances because she knew full well he had a pregnant mate, and then she was thundering toward her beta with her jaws agape, ready to grab her by her neck, wring it and and fling her to the ground. She was pregnant but that made her all the more aggressive, and she was still able to barrel forward with the force of a raging hurricane in spite of it. She wouldn't be told to get over it by the very subordinate who directly threatened her authority and her children by being a slut with her mate.

Saena could get over being called names, being called out on her avoidance of commitment, and even being told she was overreacting about something reasonable. She could've gotten over it if Reek had ever told her he was unhappy with how often she travelled to soothe her troubled soul. She could've gotten over her fledgling feelings for Luke and chosen Reek, because although she didn't really want them, she would've sacrificed her own feelings for her cubs (and a part of her really did love her ex-mate). But with his actions, Reek had made Saena feel like Wynter, when she felt she was the only reason he had ever amounted to anything more than a sad, wallowing lump of fur, and when she felt personally responsible for all of his successes. By fucking Tavi in spite of his mate and their unborn pups, Reek had told her he was ungrateful, selfish, and not devoted at all to his family—all qualities that not only disgusted her, but reminded her of Peregrine.

And though Saena was more like Peregrine than she would ever admit, it was seeing him in Reek, and knowing that Reek's only defense for himself was that their pups deserved to know him when what they deserved was not to have a father that cared more about sating his dick than their wellbeing, that she could never forgive him. And it was for that reason that she could not get over it, and that, plus the satisfaction of strangling the bitch Reek had chosen over her and their pups, was why she attacked Tavi outright.