sad wife, unhappy life

Azure did not miss the change in Hana's body language at his news, though it brought him no enjoyment to see her happy for him. Sparrow was still fresh in his mind and bitterness drove him at every turn. "Right, I should have realized that you'd be so pleased. I'm finally an equal with Sparrow, after all. You've finally got your alpha, still twisted around your paw where I have always been but now with extra bragging rights." He scoffed, a cloud of condensation billowing out from his nostrils into the cold mountain air.

The words were a bit crueler than they should have been, but was Azure wrong? He didn't think so - Hana had been a gold digger for most of her life, literally bred and raised to expect as much. It did seem she always ended up cozying up to the wolves in power more often then not, and before his promotion, Sparrow had a higher station then he had as the sole leader of her pack. It made all too much sense, his paranoia told him.

"Speech"