Firestone Hot Springs even when he ate her tongue

Hawkeye listened to Lecter quietly, focusing intently on his words. A question rose up in her chest about his life when he was younger, but he asked her about Peregrine. A scowl showed on her face momentarily.

"Well, besides the fact that he discarded me and took over my pack after I bore his children... he acts like we weren't ever anything. He controls all that I am. My pack, my pups. He is everywhere. I no longer want to be around him." Hawkeye became agitated. She wished she'd never mated with Peregrine, even if it meant that her daughters had never been born. Guilt shocked her for a moment, but she could not deny what was true. She hated everything having to do with the male, and she could not fight it.

Hawkeye wondered where she had gone wrong, and realized that she'd gone boy crazy looking for a mate. She rejected her religion for a relationship. She was angry at the world for her mistakes, but it wasn't her fault that her ex-mate was a selfish jackass.