Sleepy Fox Hollow Folk star

Wylla should've known he wouldn't accept her answer at face value. His face loomed into her periphery as he craned his neck and caught sight of her face, and then stammered out a reply. It sounded strange coming from him. After all, Wylla had already made the unfair assumption that this was just another contract to him. He didn't care any more than he did about any of his other prospects, was what she told herself.

Mahler, she sighed, pausing in the snow to look him full on. If I came to you and said that whatever pups I'm carrying aren't just yours and you would have to share my attention with the other fathers, how would you react? A test, then, and if he didn't chase her from his grounds in a wild fit of rage then perhaps he would begin to understand the position she was thrust in because of her own foolishness.