"She's right," Kate said to Khaat regarding Jess's comments. "Brian is a lot stronger than you give him credit for. Give him a bit to adjust. Khaat, the only thing he's ever cared about was that you and the girls were healthy and happy. Didn't you say you two wanted more kids?"
"We did...well, we do," she said awkwardly.
"And has he ever said, even once, that he wishes Abbey were his?"
"No! Never!" she said. "He' always just treated her like she was."
"Then, the problem isn't with Brian," Kate said, "It with you."
"Me?"
"You, Dear. He loves you. I thought he was coping with this," she said.
"He...seems to be," Khaat said.
"Then, again--this isn't him. This is you. I don't think it'll matter to him if you have one child or a hundred. He loves you. Now--right, then. Lets move on to the next shop. Jess needs shoes, and you need to see that there is such a thing as sexy little flats. Come along."
Robert had avoided getting into this with Jack. He had been watching Jack's movements for some time, and Jack was starting to turn into something he wasnt' sure he liked. If there was one thing the Lupin family knew, it was lycanthropy. And Robert and Khaat's hatred for Fenrir and everything he stood for went deep.
"Jack," Robert said. "Let me refreh you a bit on your history. My brother became a werewolf because he was bitten by Fenrir Greyback. Grayback believed that all humans needed to be changed into werewolves and that, given enough time, they could learn to self select how and when to use their abilities. In short--he wanted to make humans a race of supernatural beings. The problem that Greyback had is that his desire to gain control of his curse and to self select when he used his strength or speed made him more than a bit criminally disturbed. He lost all sense of conscience over time and didn't care who he hurt, and I do know that if Khaat or I either one ran across him now, its more than likely we would be sorely tempted to kill him on sight. We've lived with the werewolve curse in our family longer than you have, no disrespect intended. And what I'm seeing in you disturbs me. You're starting to believe that you can control different aspects of the curse yourself--the speed, the strength, the rage, all of it--in order to be able to use it at your will. You are heading down some extremely dangerous road, and I see no possible way for any good to come of it."