While an outsider listening in on Roxie's words may find them heart breaking, Benjamin only found a mix of both relief and anger. The anger mostly stemmed from his wolf fighting against his brain, instinct versus emotion. "Don't make me laugh. You act as if we started all of this." He took a few steps closer, he'd come hoping avoid speaking to his one then friend, but now it was impossible. "Our Alpha was murdered. No matter how much I believe it wasn't your Pack, I can not ignore the cry for blood. Not to mention the child who walked in on his father's gutted corpse. You tell me how well an eight year old boy is going to handle that." For a brief moment, the Beta allowed a slight hint of sadness to come to his features. He truly felt awful for the boy, and along with a few other members of the pack was now taking care of him. He no longer had parents, his only family now were his pack mates.<br/><br/>Quickly, any emotion was gone, replaced with the same scowl he'd walked out of the Alphas office with. "I was going to give you and your pack the benefit of the doubt, our packs had, at the very least, pleasant relations up until now. But I see now you and your Alpha are quick to blame us for attempting to start a war." He turned as if to walk away, but it was simply to try and get his Wolf to stop making him want to run and swoop Roxie into his arms. These thoughts weren't even his own, just the manifestations of his mating bond. He'd ignore it until the last of his days on Earth, any chance with Roxie he had ended when he learned how little she truly cared for her own race. "Things are already hard enough, having to delete the Alpha from human records, the last thing I need is for them to get involved. Unless you'd like to expose our entire race to them so we can all die."<br/><br/>It had been years since what had driven him apart. One single fight over a weak wolf and his human "love" ended a childhood friendship. While Benjamin was entirely concerned with his own races survival, Roxie actually felt pity for the humans. The humans, they who have hunted werewolves to near extinction out of fear and prejudice. They hid in the human world, and she still somehow thought it ok to let some wolf with a big mouth tell some human everything about his own race and their secret existence. He didn't let it happen, and he didn't regret what he did. "Now I have to go figure out who really killed my Alpha before you try and kill me." Sarcastically, he murmurs "I'd like to see you try..." before heading back towards the front door, all the while his wolf begged him to turn around and return to his mate, to take her with him and live happily forever. Again, but a mere fantasy. But it was a powerful fantasy.