And about something I hadn’t foreseen either:
“I’m not going to be the next Majority Alpha,” he told me with a sigh of relief. “My brother is going to keep the position; we’ve already arranged everything.”
“…Really?”
That was all I could say, because I didn’t dare ask why he had decided that. If he was more than capable of taking his father’s place, from what could be seen: he was a good leader, he had proven his courage, he had faced the consequences and returned to his people. Why wouldn’t he take the position? Maybe I was the one failing to realize that he had never wanted that responsibility, not out of cowardice but for his own peace of mind. From what he had hinted at several times, being the Majority Alpha of the species was not only heavy work, but also sometimes unpleasant. In
