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Dante shook his head. "Not necessarily. Only if my mate were to earn the place should I take one. And Blue Willow felt that being Alpha may get in the way of her capabilities as healer. So she chose to remain as Beta." He wasn't about to elevate based on mateship as Peregrine had with Fox, for he hadn't agreed with that decision at the time and still did not. It was his right, true, but not the choice Dante would have made at the time.

"Why? Would you rather have her at the helm?" he followed with, tone playfully teasing. Dante wasn't quite sure yet that he wouldn't rather she have taken the role still, but those were sentiments he was no longer at liberty to voice. Perhaps at the proper time, but to show doubt was to display some weakness and he would choose his moments wisely.