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The hybrid set out the next day with a horse and a change of clothes. The Luna had pushed a bag of food and fruits into his hands, regardless of how much he had declined her request to take it.

She was quite strong willed and adamant, and he had spied her mate watching with pride as she won in their mini squabble on taking the food.

He had never quite met anyone like her...or the Alpha. Too nice, he would think, but wolves were generally warm and trusting. The Head Alpha and Head Luna were no different. Heading to their lands, he had expected hostility from the Alpha and possibly an arrow to his head, but they gad merely been wary for a couple of minutes, and the Luna had been curious, prodding him and trying to get him to speak in the most annoying way possible.

It reminded him of a certain someone he had promised never to think about. A certain someone who had taken off at the first chance she got, selfish to the very end. He should never have let her out. He should nev