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It hadn't occured to her to wonder what exactly would've prompted her brother to ask a question that made him so vulnerable, but she did manage to put two and two together when he began to explain his reason for seeking her out. To be honest, Finley didn't think much about the spat between Colt and Niamh that had driven the former to attempting to say good bye to her forever again. She could understand being hot-headed and brash in the moment, and she could also understand Colt doing his usual throw his hands up in the arm and declare I'M OUT when that seemed to be the easiest thing to do. Not that she doubted Niamh had hurt him - that had definitely been real. But Colt had never really been the stick-around-and-fight-no-matter-the-pain kind.

Which is why she wasn't all that sure about his pursuit of fatherhood at first. Kids could sure be real assholes sometimes, and they could hurt you a hell of a lot more deeply than even your mate could. But that didn't mean you got to walk away and wash your hands of it. She'd had to learn that once herself. "What did Wiffle say?" Fin asked, wanting to know what their alpha (or queen or... what did she call herself again?) said before she offered her own opinion. Plus, it gave her time to fully form one.