Hunger for the flesh he means. I’d succeeded in slowing my heart, but it was thrumming so hard I feared he’d hear it.But the tree was dense and good at masking such sounds.One of the thickest ones in these woods. I hoped it’d serve me well now.“Samantha!” He barked. “Have it your way!”From where I was ducked within the tree, I could hear his boots crunching over the twigs as he turned looking for a track or a sign of movement. His voice carrying from various directions as he turned his back then rounded again.“But don’t forget it’s me.” He persisted. “I know everything about you.”I felt a bloom of a fear as I wondered how true that was.He does know a lot about me. I’d never felt the need to keep things from him. Thinking him my only friend save Lyra Lani.“There’s nowhere you can go, nowhere you

I stuck his blade in the waist of my dress and fled back toward camp.“Really, Sam?” He called after me. “Do you honestly think you’re going to get away from me?”Really, Jaecar. You bastard.He tossed his arms. “I’m a Border Guard! I hunt down intruders all night. Most nights.”“I’m not an intruder!” I tossed over my shoulder. Not slowing my pace.My animosity growing with each step. The mere fact that I was fleeing someone I had considered myself so close to was not lost on me.He wasn’t moving.Probably thinking he’ll catch up to me easily enough.He’s underestimated me. I thought. Confidence beginning to surge.You’re just like them afterall, Jaecar!***Perhaps someone would’ve thought it was silly that I would flee the one man I trusted from our camp when he offered to be my mate.But that person clearly didn’t understand the nature of the Asara males.Being collected by the former alpha meant they were the most aggressive, most ferocious of any wolves out there.Each of them ne

Jaecar's light green eyes appeared in my line of vision.I cast him a last pleading look. Willing him to suddenly have a change of heart and let me go."Wait for me." He said. Urging, "Quietly."My lips twitched in contempt as I glared at him. The Hell I will!"Remember, if you scream, if you struggle, the pack will hear you."And they'll all want to mate. I knew it without him having to say it. I deflated a little at the thought. And my struggling could make me sweat which would only carry my hormone better in the wind.Filling this whole tree with my smell. I grimaced.“I have to go to the Pack Meeting and then I’ll be back for you.”I’ll figure out a way to escape him by then. I reassured myself. Studying me a minute and seeing that I understood he gave a satisfied nod and turned stiffly.Thankful for the reprieve, I blew a long breath and my body relaxed. He's gone.For a while. A niggling little voice corrected.***What a fantastic day this is turning out to be!I knew if I was

SAMANTHAI could hear the first snuffling as the sun was setting. A wolf had tracked me out here and was huffing near the tree."Get back to camp!" I heard Jaecar's voice. Growling in dangerous warning. Then I heard a thud and the sound of bones crunching.A yip indicating the wolf was hurt.Jaecar stepped into view and delivered another ruthless kick to the wolf’s ribs. "Get out of here!" He grated out. "My territory!"The wolf gave a shrill whine and trudged from my view.Jaecar's eyes were level with the peepholes again, but I could see now they were slitted.He's feral now. I could tell just from looking at him. I'd never seen him like this.Every year before I'd locked myself in the hut and he'd helped me fortify it and put on the extra locks so no amount of charging or digging would get the wolves into my domain.Every year I was safe. Because of him.Now I won't be...Because of him? It didn't seem right. It felt like the deepest betrayal.He knocked aside the bit of wood blocki

His muscled buttocks flexed as he probed deep beneath my stomach. Making me shout around the ribbon in my mouth at the unfamiliar stretching and the feeling of being so filled. Wondering how much more I could take.Feeling almost as though he might tear through me.He tipped his head, staring at me as though he yearned to see into me. To know my thoughts and feel what I was feeling. Suddenly he was still, his body tightening and craning back as he seemed to swell even fuller inside me.There was hot moistness deep in me and I suddenly knew this was what he meant by 'seeding.'He'd filled my body with the evidence of his pleasure.Grunting he collapsed over me. His knees drawing up on each side of my hips. Making my legs drape his sinewed thighs. He summoned enough strength to pull his tunic over his head. Yanking his pants further down his thighs before he dropped all that bared skin atop me.His flesh was alive with heat. Making him almost seem like he was on fire. He was breathing r