"Alright, enough pretending I know what you've been up to with that boy." Standing beside her sister with a bucket in hand, Charlotte glared down at Freya's hunched form as she pulled another bucket out of the river. "You really should start explaining yourself now."

Still of mind and body, Freya set aside the bucket and looked at Charlotte through her reflection in the clear water. Her secret had been out for a while, and ignoring it any longer served nobody, not even her. As for the shame she would've felt from confirming Charlotte's doubts, it was easily overshadowed by what the two had run into last night inside that tent.

"I didn't…" Pursing her lips as words escaped her, Freya shook her head and limply lifted herself. "It just happened, I was weak for a moment and the next thing I knew–well, I don't know what else to say."

Holding her tongue, Charlotte gave Freya another chance to explain herself without any judgment. As if assisting her to feel better, the morning lark filled the awkward silence. It's called both calming and gracious–stark in contrast to the cacophony of moans that had been echoing in the sisters' heads since last night.

"I…I," with a swallow, Freya turned to face Charlotte. "I think I fell in love again, with that boy of all people."

Shoulders dropped, and so did the sister's contour. Wearing her shock apparent, Charlotte reached for Freya's arm and whispered.

"Oi… What are you talking about?" Blinking in disbelief, she squeezed her fingers. "You said no more men, remember? I didn't marry anyone because of you and your experience. You told me it was for the best, for both of us, and now you want to tell me that you fell in love for the third time?"

"I mean, I can lie to you and say no," shrugging her shoulders, Freya's head turned about, rampant. "But, I think… Yes. I have."

"Blast it fucking all!" Grabbing her shoulder with a scream, Charlotte shook Freya's body with all that she could muster. "You have a son the same age as him, and do you have any idea how it would make him feel to know that you're screwing that young man?!"

Feeling disoriented from the sudden shaking, Freya pushed herself away from Charlotte but ended up falling back into the river. A splash of water hit the leopard woman, making her recoil as the coldness seeped through her fur. Freya, on the other hand, glared at her sister with great contempt.

"You think I don't know? Why do you take it that I've been keeping it a secret while you nearly revealed it in front of everyone!"

Scrunching her nose, Charlotte growled through her teeth while wiping the wet spot off her arm. Huffing and puffing with rage, she wanted to scream out her heart, and yet the thought of what she herself wished to do was keeping the leopard woman from going fully insane.

"You stupid woman. Why would you ever fall for a playboy like him?" Charlotte sneered, though she already knew why, as Custer had a way with words that nobody could deny.

Picking herself out of the water, Freya made her way to the buckets that were now tumbled over. Grabbing them in her hand, she kept her head lowered while filling them both at once by lowering herself into the water.

"You can have him if you're so upset about not having a boyfriend until now," she replied in jest.

But to her surprise, Charlotte decided to take her up on the offer.

"Fine! I will take him as my boyfriend, at least then you won't be fucking him behind our backs!" Truly believing that she was severing whatever connection the two had with each other, Charlotte stood firmly on the decision, and her razor-sharp glare emphasized just that. "I know how stubborn you are, but if you try to stop me, I'll tell everyone else what you've been doing."

Keeping the fact that everyone but Rudy knew about Freya's affair a secret, Charlotte wanted her sister to be on edge. And on edge she became, for the look of anger in her eyes changed to shock and surprise in an instant. In spite of that, Freya began walking out of the river and shot in complaint.

"Whatever, I never said that I'll make him my boyfriend, so go ahead!" Uttering those words felt easy at first, but as Freya kept walking through the forest, they echoed inside her head with the realization that she could no longer feel the same comfort as she'd felt in Custer's arms a while back, resonating like a din in her head.

Clicking her tongue, the mother tried shaking the thought, but the more she tried to do so, the longer the thought remained in her mind. The smell of the young man's skin, the taste of his body, and the warm and girthy feeling of his dick pulsing against her fingers were branded soul deep and kept surfacing the more she tried not to think about them.

Following her closely, Charlotte couldn't shake what she'd seen either. The two sisters were fighting over a man who had just done fucking the entirety of a clan. In theory, it should've been absurd, and yet the two found themselves tussling over him. What Charlotte failed to realize, however, was that while Zephyr was a playboy in her eyes, the same did not hold true for the others.

Freya, for one, saw some truth in Aura's explanation of the cure. Why else would she have Rudy present if Custer wanted to hog the women to himself? In the end, however, their decision to be cured by him was there, and given the difference in size and charisma, to a degree, she could understand why what happened happened inside that tent.

'Better a child from him than the sick men in these parts.' Having seen many a deformed birth thanks to her father's promiscuous nature, Freya was far more aware of the problems bad genes could pass on. Especially when the two people engaging in the act were incompatible for the most part, like demi-humans and beasts bearing the seeds of a human father.

Lost in thought of the many malformed children and atrocities, Freya finally managed to get her mind off Custer. But upon getting back to camp, her peace of mind would shatter once more, for the women and the men of the clan were gathering to send them off. And unsurprisingly, the women were getting a little clingy and emotional about the departure of their future children's father.

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