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Although Pan's remark was not a particularly self-deprecating one, it triggered something in Peregrine. Suddenly he felt sort of angry about his lover's inability to recognize his own self-worth. What this really boiled down to was the fact that Peregrine wasn't good enough for Pantaleimon, yet the Alpha knew the Gamma probably didn't see that at all.

"You are enough, Pan. You are beautiful and good and kind and all manner of wonderful things. You need to recognize that and stop thinking you're not worthy. And don't place your value on what any particular person—including me—thinks of you. You're right: beauty isn't enough. But you're also smart, kind. You're important, Pan. I do hope you take the time to think about everything that was said today... and that, at the end, you come to realize this. That you deserve the fucking world. No," he corrected himself. "That you deserve to be the center of someone's universe."

Sensing that Pan wasn't sure what to do with himself or where to go right now, Peregrine decided to make it easy for him by making himself scarce. "I really do love you," the swarthy wolf said, his one-eyed glance lingering on Pan's stricken face for a moment before he turned and loped away to give Pan some space to breathe... and think.