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Aaron Gabriela's confusion is palpable, but unless she asks directly for my reasoning, I'm not telling her. She doesn't really need to know anyway. What difference would it make in the grand scheme of things? If she wants to keep her child, the one she made with whomever, then so be it. My pack's claim, my claim, over it will remain the same. We will raise it as the next alpha regent and that will be that. "What if it's a girl?" she asks. I shrug. "That's...you?" Gabriela turns and throws the pellets in her hand at the fish, causing them to chaotically splash at the surface, trying to greedily eat up all of them before they get a chance to sink to the bottom. "What the hell? No alpha king?" "I'm not partial to gender, Gabriela." "Why?" "What does it matter?" "Why wouldn't it matte