Chapter 60: The Choices We Make Pt. 2

“Seven.” I finally answered Valene's question. I knew that she would find it impossibly young.

“Seven what?” her brow rose suspiciously. My expression said it all. Her eyes widened, and suddenly, her expression displayed that of sympathy. “Surely you don’t mean he was so young as seven when he’d taken over the pack! That…that is well below the age that a child should even have their own say! You let him-”

“Ares may have been young, but he has always had his own mind, and when it all boiled down to it, I was not his father.”

“Were there no adults…to look after the boy?” 

“There were adults,” I said. “There were pack members, a delta, but none were fit to lead. They became lost