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"Dad"

Dylan pulled Sean into a brief, tight hug before helping himself to a Guinness

"Are you full up here?" Dylan asked "Or do you have a corner left where your old dad can sleep?"

Sean leaned against the breakfast bar to watch his father take a drink "Sure we do But I thought your move in with Glory was per with Glory permanent?"

"You tellanother sip of beer "I loved your h they hadn’t had this discussion many times Sean and Dylan, Dylan and Liam "I know you did But she of all people wouldn’t want to see you buried in grief after fifty years She’d say, ‘What is wrong with you,on with life’ "

The sain "I can hear her saying that Funny thing, I can hear Glory saying it too"

"Well, then"

Dylan retuned his attention to his beer "It’s not an easy thing It never will be" He clicked the bottle to the counter "I didn’t come to talk about my troubles, Sean; I came to talk about yours"

"About Andrea, you mean"

"About Andrea and you" Dylan’s dark blue eyes were serious "It was a good thing you did for her, clai her so she could relocate But she’d not an ordinary Shifter, son, and I’ about what she did for Ely today"

"I take it you’rehalf Fae?"

Dylan nodded "I’ve met half Fae before, even half-Fae Shifters Andrea is different from any Shifter, half Fae or otherwise I’ve ever known She’s not dominant Glory isn’t top of her pack, and Andrea is well beneath her in the hierarchy But Andrea acts more like an alpha"

"No, she doesn’t" Alpha feht hard for pack or pride dominance, with the males below her always ready to take her down The few alpha females Sean had met were more ruthless than any alpha male and would rip the heart out of said male the instant he couldn’t make eye contact with her With alpha feuard, or preferably, in another state

"Not quite what I mean, no," Dylan said "Andrea isn’t an alpha But at the saive a daht her hoht up to me and looked me in the eyes No avoidance, no submissiveness Her stare wasn’t bravado or defiance; she just didn’t care Glory still has a hard ti my eyes, even after all these years, but not Andrea I see Andrea do the sah she has no interest in the hierarchy, like she’s somehow outside it"

Sean had noticed that, and her lack of fear somehow spiked his libido "Maybe she learned the trick because she grew up more or less at the mercy of her own pack The Colorado Shiftertown is pretty insular, and they always treated her like an outsider It couldn’t have been easy on her, poor lass"

"Granted But it’s so hand on his son’s shoulder "Be careful of her"