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"Sweetheart, please..." I begged Jazmin to come back to bed as I heard her rustling around in the bathroom. It was too early for this. She was supposed to stay in bed all day with me after running all night.
“I’m exhausted but the Luna has invited us all for a visit while Mylo trains today,” Jazmin called out while she was braiding her hair.
“Why the hell is Mylo training today?” I sat up, still half asleep as she came around the corner to fully look at me, “I thought Alderic was doing it, and later… what time is it even?”
“Terran’s going,” she was raising her eyebrows weirdly with an even weirder smile plastered on her face, “and training is in an hour, it’s already two.”
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Timber Alpha --76--
MYLO “Is she pissed?” Alderic asked as I stepped outside to wait for Dahlia. “No,” I shook my head, “but you’re lucky SHE was the one who submitted you.” “Yea that one’s on me,” he shook his head, "all this Alpha energy is making Leto brazen. You'd think he'd be the opposite, I mean he's no coyote," he looked at me and laughed lightly, tucking his hands into his pockets, "but he's used to being around it, we've done things like this since we were kids." Leto had a history of trying to outrank other leaders so it didn’t come to me as a surprise. What mattered most to me was that he was already tempering Leto before Dahlia made him submit and that I knew when it came down to it that he would lay down his life for her and Nora.
