Home is where the heart is?

For @Raissa though @Mason is also allowed to jump in - bit of pp, hope you don't mind.

He needed to talk to his mate, his wife, the woman he had chosen to spend the rest of his life with. A long time ago now, he had found her in the forest. He had planned to lie to her, to scheme and to send her on her way when the pups were born.

That time was now.

He wandered into the den and looked at them all. Raissa, Mason, June - they were his world. He thought about it all when he saw them all and finally admitted what his heart was telling him. He couldn't do this. His children loved their mother and he loved her too, he couldn't send her away. Never mind the risk that she would take the children with her, he didn't want her to go.

Time changed things.

Maybe his time away from both Raissa and Bindi had cleared his head, maybe his focus on the pack and his children showed him a different picture for their future. Indeed, he wanted a family-lead pack like the one Peregrine and Fox had. Him and Raissa leading the pack with Bindi and her mate as the betas, that was his dream now. It required Raissa and Bindi to forever put their troubled past behind them, though.

Maybe if things were different he would have to send her away for the way she had treated Bindi but no one was left to remember that now, Chaska had only just joined a few days before and all the original members were gone. It would be nice to have a family-run pack.

"Everything okay?" he asked, directing his question to Raissa before carrying on. "I think we need to talk."