Blacktail Deer Plateau I know it's dire my time today

The only way change could come about would be if he allowed it. Well, no, it would come if he allowed it, and others accepted it. Everything was a two-way street, and it was hard for Siqsa to come to terms with this. He was a subborn bastard, despite his naivity.

"I'll have to talk about her at a ... later time?" The sentence became a question as he passively asked to not touch on the subject with the Alpha. She hadn't done anything to him - but he knew all of what had ever happened between them was his fault. He had abused her, both physically, and mentally. But the spiritual healer had never let him down...and he was having a hard time coming to terms with the kindness that he was expected to portray and the evil that had been cultured in him. He couldn't tell Kavik - he would pobably be cast out, and he ...he didn't have anywhere else to go.

"I believe your level of trust," he admitted. "I just don't want to ruin it with something bad from me."