Ania's mother while trying to give birth to their second child, along with the baby, thus it was only Stone and Ania right now. It was so hard to live as a single father, especially when this was not their former pack.
Most of the members of the Howling Wolf pack had returned to their land, since this place brought back a lot of bad memories. Only a few had stayed here, while most of them were warriors who stayed behind to stabilize the situation, as there were still many warriors from the Blue Moon pack who caused trouble every now and then.
However, to see Ania smiling and even laughing like that was so rare. After the death of her mother, she became very quiet and always played alone. She didn't even interact with the children her age.
All of Stone and his wife's family had died during the slavery, thus they only had each other, which made him have complicated feelings to see how his little girl was so comfortable with the daughter of their tyrant.