His features instantly hardened. "I know how you feel son, but there was no other decision to be made. She belongs here with her pack and I, as you know, am not one to go against tradition."
I snorted. He had to be joking. "You're kidding, right? All this over a stupid tradition? None of the pack would care about that, they just want her gone." As if it wasn't already bad enough what she did, now she practically gets full reign of the house.
"First off, you will not speak to me like that Adan." The veins bulged out of his temples. "And Carmen is not to blame in this. You have no idea what happened and as usual everyone is going on idle gossip. She deserves to be in this pack just as much as anyone else does and I won't have you or anyone else saying anything different."