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Rowan did not begrudge Casmir from the way he sought more - she had welcomed him for comfort, wanted between their touches to be a gentle presence that he knew he could rely on. Even when he admitted he needed to apologize to his brother Rowan pressed a kiss against the base of his present ear, not a reward precisely, but to show she would not take offense to such a thing - she did not want to live with the us verses them mentality that their circumstances had opened up to. "You are family,"  Rowan began quietly. "You will love one another always - and probably fight again as you age. It's just the way things are."  She said with a small smile. 

Rowan would not keep Casmir from his family, she would never dissuade him from reconciliation. She would not forgive Constantine his controlling attempts to choose her life for her, or the way he had ignored her words repeatedly. It had been clear he did not care for her nor for her children, and should he appear on her doorstep she wasn't sure if she would allow him near her children. If Casmir was present

.. Perhaps. 

Casmir pulled away and for a moment Rowan worried he could feel her thoughts - but it was not the dark boys twin Rowan despised but the haughty alpha who had rejected her children because she had wanted them for her own. Still, in an effort to protect the remaining Mayfair children Rowan had told no one Aria's true betrayal. She had kept that secret all her own. That Aria so quickly abandoned the pack only further proved she never would have deserved the gift that Mayfair children were.  To Aria it was the status symbol, it was all her pride and not her heart. Her gaze shifted for a moment to her babies playing so innocently and then to Casmir again. 

"Do you know where they went?"