Curiosity

"No Alena, I couldn't... not with my mate so close to giving birth. My family died the last time I was away. To visit would have taken up time that I was afraid I didn't have. Tahlia needed me." Bane's tone growing more firm as he voiced his retort. "And do I honestly look like I could last another year to teach them everything? Alena, I am old, and I'm gonna say what I said to my mate before I was cast out into the cold." Bane stressed these next words. "I was always a compulsive wolf, and lacking what I always wanted had driven me to extreme measures. One of our pups were the solution, and I felt that of I didn't have one in my presence that they would die because my past five, and mate, died while I was away. You were away Alena, you were away..."

Alena stood and his ears pinned against his head shamefully. "We were still a few days away from having our own. And I didn't know Alena... I didn't know you had just came back... and are with a pack now that your usurper is dead?" His head raised and saw that Alena was looking away from him out across the river. Bane gave a tired blink of his remaining eye and decided to just let the silence speak for her if a reply was given to him. Words didn't really matter at this point in their once-relationship, and if the ground decided to crack a divide between them it would be most fitting.