[And somewhere in all of that he can't ignore his mate, either!! But he'll probably manage it just fine.]
Junko's afraid of sacrificing her future in order to be a good parent, and I don't want her to give up on her future for nothing but a passing whim.
[Because, frankly, there were enough grown women in the pack, and it was easy to gain more. Just because they hadn't actively recruited didn't mean they were incapable of it.] And as a girl that's just found her mate and is awfully, heart wrenchingly in love with him to the point of madness, it stands to reason that she would want her first child to be with her mate, not her father.
[It was maybe one of the ways in which her Alpha was kind of superseded.] But Rin can't be around to raise a kid, and who knows if that'll change. I think she wants to do it, but it's not in her to disrespect Rin or throw all of her hard work away. But if you and I raise that child, she still gets her future.
[And Masaomi gets his go around, and Nariko is guaranteed a grandchild from Junko within the next two years instead of whenever the hell Rin comes back around. Everyone wins.]
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Junko's afraid of sacrificing her future in order to be a good parent, and I don't want her to give up on her future for nothing but a passing whim.
[Because, frankly, there were enough grown women in the pack, and it was easy to gain more. Just because they hadn't actively recruited didn't mean they were incapable of it.] And as a girl that's just found her mate and is awfully, heart wrenchingly in love with him to the point of madness, it stands to reason that she would want her first child to be with her mate, not her father.
[It was maybe one of the ways in which her Alpha was kind of superseded.] But Rin can't be around to raise a kid, and who knows if that'll change. I think she wants to do it, but it's not in her to disrespect Rin or throw all of her hard work away. But if you and I raise that child, she still gets her future.
[And Masaomi gets his go around, and Nariko is guaranteed a grandchild from Junko within the next two years instead of whenever the hell Rin comes back around. Everyone wins.]