"Are you serious right now?” My father asked, wiping his eyes. “Della, I’m serious. This idiot really is your son. Either he is that stupid or what the beta said was true and he was looking for a reason to get rid of Zell we could have saved him all this trouble if he had just told us that he was not ready to mate or that he didn’t want to be mated. We may have been able to sit down with him and Zell and work out an appropriate arrangement. Zell actually loved this idiot enough that she would have let him be free if that would have made him happy.”
“Son, you can tell us the truth. What is really going on? You did not have to make up this crazy story. All you had to do was be honest with everyone and we could have worked this out in a way that didn’t destroy alliances and relationships.” My mom said.