Rather than respond to her comment and drag on the conversation when the bitterness had seeped into her voice in a way that suggested to Derek that she would prefer they didn't, he chose to move on. Malia accepted the fact that she was adopted with little fanfare and moved forward with the conversation rather quickly. Good, that was about how he expected it to go.
"So here's the tricky part," he admitted. "I don't know who your mother is. I know they call her Desert Wolf," he said. "But your father...he's my uncle Peter. My mom's brother," he clarified. "He's a werewolf. So for you to be a coyote, I would assume that your mother is a werecoyote, too, but I can't confirm it," he said.