Even as I thought it I looked up and saw him crossing the camp purposefully toward us as though summoned by our thoughts.He has a tendency to do that.Marta lifted the hood of her cloak and dropped to a knee in deference as the elders of the pack were expected to.Well I’m not expected to. I leapt to my feet instead. Sending the wooden cup containing my tea sloshing to the ground near the fire. And turned to bolt but as fast as he was notorious for, he was at my elbow.“Where are you going, Lyra Lani?”“I-I…”He tilted his head and gave me a waiting look.A wave of power washed over me. It reminded me of exactly why he was alpha. His strength, speed and magic were well-known. I suspected it was why we had so few challengers dare to arrive at our walls.He was definitely a force to reckon with.I didn’t want to reckon with him at all.His sheer size was enough to disconcert me. Though far from massive, he was tall and lean and somehow still more imposing then men far bigger.I looked

It was one night until the eve of the Mating Moon and I was drying bits of fruit and gorging myself on the food in my hut and ensuring I’d have everything I needed to survive the night hidden.Now I was working on weaving a basket I could keep it all in when I heard the knock on the door and nearly let the whole thing unravel.Marta? Sometimes Marta would come to my hut late in the evening to have tea next to the fire with me.The young males didn’t bother her since she was already mated and an elder.But as I put my hand on the handle I could feel the waves of power rolling through the door.“Go away Draven…” I took a step back.“Open the door, Lyra Lani.” He coaxed.I shook my head and retreated further.“Don’t make me kick it down.” He crooned before his voice hardened to a snapping order. “Open the door.”Without any real conscious thought I lunged forward to toss it open. Instinctively obeying my alpha.He didn’t hesitate to duck the frame and step inside.Making me retreat backw

I watched the other women. They lurked around the fire. Two liked the Mating Moon and were slinking about. Rubbing their shoulders on the trees. Knowing in a few hours their scent would drive the males wild. Two others were like me. They hid. Samantha had the Border Guard, Jaecar help her fortify her hut, and she'd lock herself in under the Mating Moon. Like she does every year. I wished I had a friend to help me do something similar. But I trusted none of the males enough to allow them to help me. Besides...I rather thought she was a fool. Samantha. It hadn't dawned on her the way Jaecar, the Border Guard, looked at her. He'll be having a taste of her soon enough. I'd seen other males look at she-wolves they intended to breed, just the same way Jaecar looked at her... And though he'd been kind to her for years, helping her isolate in her tiny stronghold, I suspected he'd built himself a back way in. And one day, one day, she'd learn she shouldn't have trusted him. Though I

I cowered in the tree. Clinging to the branches. I'd found a spot that would balance me even after the moon forced me to shift. But it would manage to cradle my wolf body until morning.And wolves can't climb. So it was the only guaranteed way I'd be safe until morning. Unmated.I chewed my lip and worried. What if he spotted me before he turned?I could see the fire in the distance and knew it was unlikely. And the moon was already stirring the sky and soon they'd all be changed and no one could get to me.The only way I'd come down is if he ordered me down. The sky turned dark and the sun was falling one direction. The moon rising in the other and my heart was beginning to race.Knowing soon my scent would fill the woods, I began to panic. Wondering if I should flee back to my hut. But my Grandmama was there and the alpha had made a threat.What if he went to make good on it?He wasn't known for being terribly sympathetic.I looked at the darkening forest floor beneath me and wanted

Draven eagerly dropped to his hands and feet and crawled at me at great speed. He lowered to dip his face into my woman’s area. Sniffing and flicking out a tongue to lathe me. “Mmm. Delicious. I can’t wait to feel you.” “Don’t!” I begged. “I’ll do anything! You can have my hut, my things. Anything.” “I intend to have you. Here.” He gestured to my pinned body. Another man now held my head in place so I couldn’t even toss that. There's too many of them to fight off. Draven growled and slid up over my body. Smelling like dirt and rain and heated male sweat. His bare chest rippling over me as he slid almost serpent like up my naked flesh. Soon I felt him probing my entrance. His hard length feeling like a small fist probing the soft lips at the crux of my thighs. *** He entered me with an exulted grunt. Pleasured to feel my walls clench around him. “Good. Yes.” He paused as he reached a filmy barrier. Giving me an almost apologetic look as he surged through it. It felt hot insid