“Holy shit, Dec. I completely forgot. The pack! Do we have to finish it in front of them?”
“Do you want to?” I asked.
Fallon’s conflict spiked across the bond but I would let her make the decision.
“No,” she said, twisting her fingers in my cape.
“Then they will be happy to see us when we’re done.”
Fallon turned to Noth. “Can you still take us to the cabin?”
I blew out a relieved breath. The bite wasabout to send my mate into a frenzy. I wanted her all to myself when it hit.
Noth nodded and a black void opened before him. For once, Noth didn’t try to make the journey any harder than it had to be. It might have counted as downright gentle for the Nightmare Walker. Maggie had really softened his edges.
“Don’t forget to fuck her mouth too,” Noth chucked at me as some sort of demented wedding gift. He spat us out at the entrance to the snug home.
Maggie dragged him away, tossing a “Good luck, girl!” before they disappeared into the shadows of the pines surrounding our den.
Okay, maybe Maggie just kept all those sharp edges pointed away from us.
Finally alone, I thumped my wolf tail in anticipation only tinged slightly with fear. I wanted all my promises of our life together to be true.
“You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to,” I said.
She looked around the cabin as if confirming her list was still checked off. “The change or the bond?”
“Any of it, Honey. I will gladly lie at your feet for eternity, no matter what.”
Fallon laughed. “Well, if you really want to know.”
My heart swooped into my boots. I meant what I said, but I also really, really wanted to be inside her.
She cocked a delicious hip. “I would like to get out of this dress, please.”
My hands scrambled at her clothes before I even knew I had moved.
“I want you to bite me and change me.”
Better than any ritual vow, I grew hard at her blunt order.
“And then I would like your penis in my vagina.”
I howled as the collar fell away, desperation filling me.
“Impossible woman!”
My jaws clamped on her shoulder right where it joined her neck. The taste of her skin jolted into me. Like my maw was the size of the Ajak, I took her whole body in my mouth and all of her soul. I prayed to the Old Magic to bring her the gift of the wolf. It never hurt to ask instead of command.
At the same time, the bond fused us in a shower of moonlight. I rejoiced in her taste and in the heat rising between us because I finally felt Fallon's heart, all of it, and it beat with mine. We entwined so completely that I started to tip into her soul, the Fate of us together inevitable.
Only my mate’s frantic hands brought me back to the cabin. My shoulder jerked as she rent my cloak. I slit her ceremonial dress right down the middle.
“Evie didn’t do this justice. Why are you still clothed!” She all but screeched the last part, ripping at my tunic underneath. Taking the pin off the cloak, I tossed it awayand shifted, shifting back so I was naked for her in an instant.
I scooped her up into my arms, pressing her against the wall as she kissed me frantically, hands clawing at my back.
“What do I do? What do I DO, Dec?” Her teeth lengthened in her mouth and receded again.
