Episode 25 - Love Hurts

Episode 25
Name	Love Hurts
Release Date	July 28, 2018
Running Time	17:59 minutes
	Episode Guide
Who's Your Daddy?	Hello, Goodbye

Love Hurts is the twenty-fifth episode in the Cow of the Wild series and was released on July 28th, 2018.

Spoiler Warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Plot Summary[]

The episode opens with Alari facing Fang. Alari is happy to see her father again, but Fang does not believe it is her, despite Bone telling him she is his daughter. Fang then tries to attack Alari, but Bone stops him, and the two run away. Bone informs Midnight of what happened and asks her to leave with them, but she declines.

The story cuts to Lupis and Rune where Rune tells a story of how he and Mink had an affair while she was still mates with Balder.^[1] When Mink had her second litter, Balder realized that they were Rune's and not his. In a blind rage, he killed Lupis's brothers, Kong, Czar, and Sokka. Rune runs in to find his pups dead, with Balder looking enraged and Mink seeming terrified. Furiously, he attacks Balder but is stopped by Mink, who tells him to leave them alone. Mink tells Rune that this would not have happened if they were Balder's pups before telling him to leave her family alone. Shortly after Rune runs from the den, Lupis, the only surviving pup, makes a whimpering noise, startling Mink, who is laying miserably next to Balder and her dead pups. Rune says he wants to take Lupis back to the Kingdom so that he can teach Lupis to be a better ruler and so that he himself can step down as king. Marra is seen glaring at the two as Lupis agrees to come with Rune willingly.

The scene cuts back to Alari confessing her love to Bone,^[2] before returning the story to Midnight, who reinforces Fang's insanity by claiming that Alari is still dead. Fang makes Midnight the new Alpha Female of the Pack of Night as a reward for her 'loyalty' to him.

Sammy and Torrie get into an argument after Torrie makes a light joke that no one could say that a cow joining a wolf pack would ever end peacefully. Sammy angrily tells Torrie that it isn't funny, and that if she had never met him, she could have stopped everything from happening and found Milly sooner. At this, Torrie annoyedly walks away. Sammy sadly tries to tells him that she didn't mean it, but he goes off to check on his brother.

The story once again comes back to Lupis where Marra speaks out against Rune. She tries to convince Lupis that Rune is lying, but Lupis holds firm. Rune tells Marra that she is lost, just like her father. He then says they will have to move quickly to reach the Kingdom, but Marra leaps at Rune before he can finish, wounding his neck fatally before tearing off his and Mink's feathers as he bleeds to death.

After Credits

Luna is seen crying in the forest. She then hears shuffling and Rock appears. Rock states that he has been looking for her ever since she left the meeting yesterday. Rock gets straight to the point and says if she agrees to be his Alpha Female, he will use all his wolves to aid her against Fang.