I watch Gideon carefully extend his arms out palms up in a sign of peace. “This is happening. Her leaving your care is a forgone conclusion. She’s part of something you are not capable of dealing with on your own. The forces that want her? They will keep coming for her. They will split you open, gut you and decorate the trees with your entrails like streamers at a fucking kid’s birthday party before walking off with her as you bleed out. They’ll do that to every single shifter in this territory if that’s what it takes to get her. We can stop that from happening. So stop acting like little
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