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I suddenly saw Axel as a child. A young teenager who was lying in his room late at night when his father barged into his room in the middle of the night. He dragged him outside into the snow while Axel was still only wearing shorts, but his father was all bundled up. His father pointed to the forest, and Axel started pleading not to do this, but his father hit him across the face and ordered him to start running. He's not going to be a good Alpha if he's weak. So he started running towards the woods. He didn't come back to the house until sunrise, and he was blue and freezing, and his father was standing there waiting with the hose. He hosed him down with really cold water from the outside tap and then forced him inside.
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I looked up at Axel, and he didn't know what
