Ankyra Sound How did you think I wouldn't guess

The two women kept bickering, snipping and snapping at one another. It was driving him mad. He remembered Thistle telling him once that Ragnar had taken a second wife and he wondered how in Hel Ragnar hadn't grown tired of the bickering because it was grating on Kjalarr's nerves. Though the idea of having them both was not one he was unwilling to propose he kept it to himself. He doubted either of them would like that sort of arrangement and even if they did (by some miracle) agree to it Kjalarr knew with a certainty that he would rather face Hel's wrath a million times over than listen to them bicker with each other for the rest of his life. These little pockets of snipping and snapping were annoying enough. “Enough!” The Jarl bellowed, a low growl tearing from his throat. “Stop bickering like children.” He commanded of them. They were adults, weren't they?

He couldn't say that he was particularly hurt by the fact that he was used. He had no disillusions of what had transpired between Ondine and him. He had risen to the call of nature and she had eventually let him and despite this altercation he planned to do it again, several times before her estrus cycle ended. Because he enjoyed it. Because he was the Alpha. Because she had already said she wanted him to. “Maude if it was a relationship you wanted with me you should have told me. Asked me instead of presuming to claim me,” Clearly, the Beta didn't know him as well as Kjalarr had assumed she had or else she'd have known that was never destined to fly with him. He did not miss Ondine's pained look, nor pain in her tone. “I made a promise,” Why she had let him, why she intended to let him continue, to take her during her estrus cycle wasn't a concern any longer. There was no going back from it now. “And I will keep it. I will not abandon Ondine nor children that come of our coupling. My children,” For the sake of Maude's feelings he did not let on that he intended to have Ondine again. “I will do right by them.”