I hadn’t meant to hurt him.
“I didn’t know how far the link with the pack would go, whether you’d be able to keep something like that from them, or even if you were allowed to.
“I didn’t want to put you in that position,” I said, hating that it came across differently.
“I don’t like you working with them in secret. Or at all,” Brax bit.
I nodded, going over to him and holding him as his arms eventually wrapped back around me.
“I know. But it was necessary. If I had let the council even consider saying no for longer than a second then they would have stayed there, and I cannot send my mother and the humans away. I just can’t, Brax,” I said, and he sighed.
“I know, Spitfire, I just wish you had come to us for help first.”
“I will next time. I love you,” I said, and he found my
