His sister in law was more generous of spirit it seemed than Murdock, he could guess his sisters motive with very little trouble. She had been attempting to encourage Murdock to consider courtship once again, his children needed a mother in the first, he needed a son for a second and Murdock was, although he wasn't as sure of this one, too young to be so alone. It seemed that the victim of her plans was to be her sister in law.

He chuckled at her half admonishment - had it really been nearly a decade since he had seen her? She couldn't have been too far wrong, and he shook head in a vague gesture of surprise. Murdock was ordinarily warm and gregarious with family, and while Miss Allaway was family she existed in that unfortunate middle ground of close but not close enough, not in the inner sanctum of the Greybacks and so strangely excluded from the intimacy usually found in such close family.

'Never my good lady,' he joked with a smile, 'Those of us in law enforcement perhaps know better than most how to break the law...' he was joking...of course he was but then, of course, he was also an illegal unregistered werewolf who knew of at least a dozen other unregistered werewolves....so maybe paragon of the law was a bit much! Even though it was summer the breeze was cool and there was a nip in the evening air. 'Are you too cool Miss Allaway?' he pressed, and without thinking he placed a hand over hers, testing the temperature of her finger tips.

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