[He had! But by the time Nathan came along, or was old enough to have any real memory, her father was already off to rule said pack, the same one that she would inherit upon his death. Their mother had either been single or entangled with Nathan's father at various points, so it wasn't as if Nariko had grown up with packs or ever thought she might be alpha to one, let along the sort-of matriarch of a second. There's no doubt that her involvement with pack nature was part of the classist bullshit but, well there was that saying: Birds of a feather flock together. It really was something Audrey and Nariko had in common as far as origins were concerned.

But in that moment he's really not supposed to ask her why, and she doesn't like how the hint of his voice makes her breathing stutter a little. Yeah, she's only going to get hornier.]

I think you can probably figure that out yourself. [This isn't the birds and the bees talk, after all. He could smell her just as easily as she could him.] It's my fault, I'm just - Haven't really changed since high school. [Her sex drive had always been unnaturally high, and so it might have stood to reason that she came to use sex as a way to cope with things that were difficult. She's at her mother's funeral and turned on, nothing could be better proof of unsettling habits. Now she does try to shift back a little, to just put a sliver of air between their bodies, even though it does leave her a little colder.]