The guys exchanged a glance after Alyce and Vanesa took to their room, probably communicating through their shadow bond. Both André and Dante kissed me goodnight, leaving me perplexed.
“Where the hell do you think you are going?” I called after them. “I’m exhausted and I don’t know where I’m supposed to—” Sighing, I gave up, they were half up the grand staircase and evidently, ignoring me. “What the hell crawled up their ass?” I asked rhetorically, turning to Hannes. “Can you please take me to wherever my room is supposed to be?”
A wolfish smile curved his full lips, eyes suddenly glowing blue. “It would be my pleasure. But first… How about it, beautiful? Would you like to go for a late-night run?”
A run? Was he insane?
“Why on earth would I?—?”
"He’s not talking to you, Bitch. It’s my turn!"
Before I could even process Star’s words, my body exploded, and everything went dark.
16
STARLIGHT
“I’m free!”
White as snow, the fur rippled over my skin as I exploded out of Natalia’s body, jumping clear across the room while my bones shifted, breaking, and reforming to build my formidable she-wolf form.
Hannes whirled around when I landed on all fours on the other side of the great hall, an adorable wolfish smile beginning to stretch his lips with the sight of me…
Until I jumped him.
“Mine!”
His joyous laughter echoed through the silent hall when he fell back with me on top of him. I licked his neck and face, static to finally be with my mate.
“Starlight, stop!” he gasped between bouts of laughter, but he didn’t try to push me off him, he welcomed me.
Looking into my eyes when I finally listened, his hands cradled each side of my head, lovingly caressing my jaw and neck before lowering and sinking into my fur to return the tickling attack.
“No!”I squealed, wiggling on top of him before he, too, exploded out of his human skin.
Hannes’s wolf formed way faster than I had, so effortlessly that if I blinked, I would have missed it. Luckily, I didn’t.
Standing, I got the pleasure of seeing his beautiful mix of white and a sprinkling of soft brown fur spread instantly over his body as he grew into his massive, sexy-ass wolf.
Yeah, I totally needed to practice shifting more.
“Mate…”I called, feeling him so strongly in our wolf forms.
Hannes jumped on me too, taking me to the floor again and rolling us until he was on top of me. His gaze captured mine as he glanced down at me, stealing my breath.
“Mate,”he answered mentally, and I gasped.
“I knew you were still in our mind!”
“It’s ourReinheitWölfepack link. You belong in it thanks to your father’s heritage. You are one of us.”
Shit. For the first time ever, I had no words.
“My entire life I thought pack links weren’t real…”I confessed, feeling so happy. “Our wolf pack couldn’t communicate?—”
“That was never your pack,”he growled, offended.“The RavenWolves envy the power our race has. They were born from human wannabes cursed through a witch’s black magic and blood sacrifice. It’s the reason they don’t carry the MoonGoddess’s light or the color of the earth she loves on their fur. They are not real shifters.”
“Oooh…”
