Chapter 301 Jacob

• I can see the pain in Jake’s eyes the moment he opened the door. Well, I say open the door, he near flings it off it’s hinges. I don’t think he is wanting the company. Ah well, unlucky he has got it. I am not going anywhere. Whether he wants to be alone or not. Knox said he had told him he didn’t want his parents aware of the situation, so he called me instead. I am more than happy to be here for him. The boy was like a son of my own. They are all like kids of mine, they were all that close to one another, their Dad’s like my brothers. So they truly are like family. I need to make sure he is ok.
• The situation as Knox explained it to me sounded like Jake had done the right thing. He had protected a defenceless she-wolf, who was attacked unprovoked. He was protecting a pack member, admittedly from his own mate, which had to hurt, especially since they had yet to decide if they were going to be mates yet. But he had done the decent thing, he had stepped up to defend and protect a pack member from an unprovoked attack, when she did not know it was coming, and likely saved her life in the process. I would have done the same. Knox said he would too. That tells me that Jake did nothing wrong when two Alphas are saying they would have done the same.
• Sometimes the choices we have to make can be hard to live with, the actions we have to follow can leave us in doubt, but they are done with the best of intentions, to protect those within our pack. And as an Alpha or a Beta, you have so much responsibility on your shoulders. Jake had done his role, his duty today, he had protected a pack member. I had no doubt that was what he had done. I would defend him in that. He would be hurting. He would be questioning every action he had taken, I know that, but there was no doubt in my mind the boy had done the right thing. Protection has to come at a cost sometimes. And today it did. He would come to terms with his actions eventually. And we would be there for him in the meantime. Like a family is. He will get through this. I just wish he had been blessed with a better fated mate. To have been spared this pain.