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Neema was beside herself. The fact that Yareha Afaer had returned to the pride was unavoidable, especially since he'd brought a mate back with him and she had barely gone to sleep before waking up in the High Class! Normally, Neema was an easy-going lioness who was friendly with everybody but this wasn't a situation she immediately knew how to react to. If her mother was here, she would be beside herself too. And that, before everything else, was the primary contributing factor to how Neema was handling this information.
She hadn't even spoken to her uncle since his return and she'd made a point of avoiding him during the High Class "meet and greet" for his mate. How he'd ever found someone so beloved by the Great Lion was beyond her!
Pacing in the dark and occasionally muttering to herself, Neema felt the distance between herself and her mother all the more keenly tonight. Lailah was fine with everything that was happening, Iah and Lelijaali were as indifferent as ever.. but was there something Aysu would have said or done if she was here now? Was she the only one thinking about that?