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I wanted to cli tomy thumbs I reached over to Curran and squeezed his hand

"Don’t worry," he said "We’ll find hi fro hie loves hi for hi how I e and Eduardo"

"They were very careful," Curran said "George loves her father She didn’t want hi Mahon is the Pack’s executioner and has er, five hundred pounds heavier in beast form, and he would be very motivated It wouldn’t matter on When they were done, one of the"

"Would he really fight Eduardo?"

"Depends on the circumstances Martha can pull Mahon back most of the time, but sometimes his brakes malfunction"

"But why? What would that accohed "Mahon’s problem is that he has some very definite ideas about what a man’s supposed to be and what a ets carried aith it He isn’t shy about sharing his bear wisdom Then his views collide with reality and they mostly don’t survive At the core Mahon isn’t evil He ood person, so when people react badly to the nonsense coets shocked and has to readjust For example, the first time Aunt B came to the Pack Council, he took it upon himself to lecture her about how men should be men and women should be wo thehed "What did she do?"

"She petted his shoulder and said, ‘Bless your heart, you must be awful in bed’"

Ha!

"Then she turned to Martha and told her that if she ever was in need of a s, she had several available in her clan"

That sounded like Aunt B

"Mahon turned purple and didn’t say another word through the whole Council ain I left hie once for about a month, because I had to travel out of our territory, and caoverned hile I was gone--it hat he said at the Pack Council He said he was trying to give the other alphas guidance and he was mystified why everyone wanted to tear his throat out It would be the sae and probably goad Eduardo into attacking hiood father, and in histo do, is to steer her away from what he sees as a terrible s froree with him"

"I’m pretty sure he thinks that about everybody" I’d been on the receiving end of Mahon’s wisdohed "Mahon adores his daughters If George went to her dad right now and cried and said that she was miserable without Eduardo and she felt awful, Mahon would drop everything and run to look for Eduardo"

I blinked "Seriously?"

Curran nodded "But she won’t do it and I agree with her From her point of viehy should she have tohi him that this is the man she loves, and she expects hihter and she’s just like hi as I’ve known them She always loves him, but sometimes she also hates him This is one of those tirow up in "Do you manipulate him?"

"I knohat Mahon’s version of the Beast Lord should say and do When I want hiht With Mahon sorowl and declare that he will do this because I’m the Beast Lord He expects occasional dictatorship, because in his head that’s what a capable Beast Lord would do If I tried the same tactic with Jim, he’d tell me he’d come back later after I had my head examined"