Owen It was when Violet was 15 years old that Paulina went off for a mating ball with Quade. She’d told him Violet was okay, had plenty of people to look after her and she was old enough to manage her own moments of breathlessness. That just three days away wasn’t too much to ask for, it would be like a mini vacation for them. He’d thought about it and agreed when her parents offered to watch the girls, something they did often. They were her parents after all and the girls loved them. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a nurse, so it was the best possible pair to stay with Violet as well. They rarely, if ever, went away because of Violet herself, and how sickly she was, that she needed to stay in the pack and be close to the pack hospital. This would give them both a break, aw

