[Hearing that explanation ... Leads her to that conclusion, yeah. If he's so busy working for other people and takes that on with the fervency that she sees in his eyes then it's really no wonder that his personal relationship has to be open. It's a lot of responsibility for one person, and it's a lot to ask one person to bear in the romantic sense. But that's really none of her business, so she puts that aside.]

But it's true that different packs operate on different ideals, right? [She tries to restrain the desire to shudder.] I think a lot of the confusion has to do with how our parents teach us about pack's, and the only other one I met wasn't ... It wasn't anything like yours.

[It was an unpleasant combination of being raised against the concept as a whole, and having a bad run in with pack members that were entirely separate of the Kidas.] It's because I can accept your view of an alpha that I want to join.

[She leans back in her seat and then sighs, looking at him long and hard, narrowing her eyes and ...] ... Goddammit, now I do kind of want to sleep with you. But you're, like, exactly the same age as my dad.

[Not that her dad was weird or gross or whatever he was just. Her dad. That was all.]