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“Well,” Peter says at last, forcing a crooked smile into his voice, “at least this time he didn’t almost get us all killed.”
Derek swallows. His throat is dry, the words scraping on the way out. “I was drunk.”They land and disappear without effect.
Talia turns then, her gaze settling on him fully. It’s steady, unreadable, and it makes his shoulders tense despite himself. “You were careless,” she says. Not angry. Not loud. Certain. “You are a werewolf, and if you got drunk, you laced it with wolfsbane, you did it. Do you understand, In twenty-four years, every scandal has had the same root. You. At some point, it stops being bad luck and becomes character. And I am tired of pretending this is something that merely happens to you.” Derek nods once, reflexive.
“When you speak,” Talia continues, “you do so as a Hale. As Alpha blood. Your indulgences do not absolve you of that.”
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Derek just wanted a moment of quiet. Instead, he crosses a line with the last person he should trust.....old grudges, bad decisions, and a mistake he keeps repeating.