Stone Circle Torn loyalties

Sunny cringed a bit as she immediately got up and moved toward him, asking him what happened. Poor choice of words he thought guiltily and then looked at Valette again. "Okay not so much of an emergency as..well...I need to leave. Akuti left dad with the three pups, and things are falling apart. The same thing that happened to me and Dawn is happening to them. Dawn came for me last night and asked me to return, she said that things for the pups don't have to be like they were for us.." he tried to explain as quickly as he could so that the issue would be settled and he could go meet Dawn. He hoped Valette would understand and allow him to leave, he would hate to have to decide whether to ignore his family by taking the alpha's orders, or disobey Easthollow and run off on bad terms.