(Rene)"You scowl like your mother. She scowled at me daily, near the end."My father doesn't rise when I come in.He stopped rising for people around the time they stopped rising for him."Father."I take the chair across from him, because standing over him reads as a challenge, and we don't challenge each other.Not in the open, where the pack would see.Very rarely in here, where it's just the two of us and a lifetime of things we leave unsaid.He's smaller than he was.Whatever the illness took, it took off the top.The breadth of him, the way he used to fill a doorway the way I fill one now.His eyes are the same though.As dark as mine in the center, but his doesn’t have the ring of gold that mine does.He’s never once looked at me like I'm the Alpha and he isn't."You've got the pack talking," he says. "The whole place reeks of her. Half my old Betas can't hold a thought, sniffing after a woman who's meant to be dead."There’s a dry sound in his chest."The other half count the
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