Silver Creek This is the beat of my heart

Rowan was not comfortable with a stranger being anywhere near her children. She wouldn't let anyone just approach and she wouldn't leave her children with strangers. As Cortland strode forward all ready to investigate the other wolf wisely backed up, Rowan not hesitating to lift her child and hold him firmly in her jaws by his midsection. She carted him back towards the den, settling him back in the entrance. He could investigate the world only at her measured pace, not his.