Redtail Rise This Time, Baby, I’ll Be Bulletproof

Though this was Masquerade’s hard won experience, Riley understood. And he understood, because he had been observer to it all along.

She was tired of rejection and being overlooked. She was tired of trying for no reward. And she was tired of being runner up in someone else’s center stage. All of this was inherently relatable.

Then if you are tired of those things, you do what you want instead. He pressed his forehead to her a moment in thought. He was not a creature for thinking days ahead; he was a wolf of action and reaction, not forethought. His strength was in steadiness, not directive. I see a future that has you in it. Anything else, does not matter to me - as long as you are happy.