“Are we going to talk about all of this like grown-ups, or are you going to continue acting like a child?” I could tell that my words had little to no affect on my mother. She didn’t even do so much as flinch, didn’t even look like she had heard me. But I believed that she had. She was paying close attention to me, although it didn’t seem like it. It was the same situation with my father,although he had gone completely silent after I had made my threat to my mother. I felt that it was because he was well-aware of how strong the desire was to protect his mate. He knew that I was being serious. Or perhaps it was because he was having an internal battle on weather to protect his mate, or to side with his son. I imagined that it was quite a difficult decision to make, considering the circu