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he shut his eyes against the sudden keening of his mate, her voice filled with shock and pain. the pack would know now, would know of the monster their former leader had become. he looked at her as she paced heavily, weighted with the dark revelation. had he not said the same? "i have not seen dante yet; i came straightaway to you. i could not slay one of ours, either. peregrine seemed to believe i was weak for it, for not agreeing that his murder of junior was warranted."

"she was but a child, tortured by her mother's abandonment and then that of her father. peregrine brings this on himself!" lasher snarled. "he set up his former children against his current babes; i am glad that the child is not dead, but he saw fit to sacrifice junior in the child's place. fuck him," the beta spat then, though he rarely cursed in such a manner. he fell silent, alternately seething and aching with pain.