Bearclaw Valley And now it's hard to breathe

It frustrated Laurel that he just didn't see what he was doing to her and how he was tearing her apart at the seams. He didn't see that by deciding that the dumb girl was now her superior he was shoving Laurel's face in the mud once more. "How can you not see!" she screamed, but then she let him speak. Let him say that he gave a fuck about her and the pups, and that she was family, and that they were family.

"Where does it put us that you favour her? That you put her above us? You know I deserve to be the Alpha female. You knew that it would hurt me to make her so. How could it not? My pups deserve a father. A real father!" She looked at him, still frowning angrily, her hackles bristling with the indignity of it all. "I should have everything she has. It's not fair, Xan. How could you..." She trailed off there, feeling very much lost for words and like the world was piling up on her. Her legs felt shaky and she looked at him pleadingly, wishing he would just see what she meant.