you don't want it to change

Kassander did his best to sink into the ground, not fully understanding the tension between his alpha and this relative of Epiphron's. But he jumped when the male spoke heartily to him, and his heart stuttered a little at his words. Svetlana? She had disappeared when he'd handed Ebony over to Katja, effectively dissolving it. When he had told his siblings that Sigmarr was dead. "Svetlana came here?" he asked softly. He didn't understand. Why had she chosen to run here instead of coming home? Did she hate him for what had happened? For Sigmarr's death? For what happened to Ebony? She had never even come to tell him that she was safe, or that she'd joined a new pack. He'd thought... worried... had been terrified that she too had died. But all along she had been in the pack that had been his closest ally as an alpha? He swallowed hard, and kept his eyes on the ground.