the-lost-and-found

@MaryTheMouse  thank you for clearing this up for me it was much appreciated.  I now understand in more depth of what happened.

MaryTheMouse

He did die, he just didn't die as suddenly as you said. there were multiple mentions of how he kept coughing up blood and had horrible headaches and felt a lot of dizziness. He had a bunch of hemorrhages and internal bleeding that eventually clotted and he basically had a stroke. On the night of his and Aspen's three-year-anniversary, he had a stroke and collapsed onto the concrete roof. On his way to the ground, he hit his head and by the time the paramedics got there, he had too much external and infernal bleeding to recover.

MaryTheMouse

(Note: I tried commenting on your comments but it didnt let me for most of them)
          
          In the bonus chapter 'The Bromance' they mourn him pretty damn well, because the wound is fresh. In the Epilogue, they have gotten two years to recover and are slowly moving on. Dan didn't cry, because he didn't usually show many emotions. Aspen DID have a long speech bc. she was the one closest to him and mourned him a lot. Jonathan was too young to understand and didn't get that his father was dead. I know some three-year-olds can wrap their mind around that concept, but Jonathan didn't get it.
          
          Jonathan is around twenty in the last bonus chapter and Aspen is in her mid-thirties to early forties. They both agreed on a date where Jonathan would take over, but he would be older than the general Alpha. Jonathan didn't think he was selfless enough, intelligent enough, or powerful enough to fully commit himself to the pack and Aspen knew that too. So, they both agreed that when Aspen was in her sixties, Jonathan would take over.
          
          Jonathan doesn't mourn Maximus because he's had seventeen years to recover. He instead celebrates the life his father lived and the things he accomplished. Besides, Maximus didn't want to be mourned over, he wanted people to be happy.

MaryTheMouse

@MaryTheMouse Btw, Maximus didn't really die all of a sudden, though it might have felt that way. It said a countless amount of times that he had brain hemorrhages and internal bleeding so the blood eventually clodded and the easiest way to explain his death is that he basically had a stroke. When he fell, he hit his head (which doesn't really help) and only had about a minute before he died from internal bleeding and external blood loss. :)
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