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“When Cassia Delacroix deigns to summon us,” Asa quipped. Then he murmured, “Fucking bitch.”
For a moment, Silvan saw the old Asa Rincewind, the fiercest wolf in the pack.
But then it was gone.
“That’s all,” he said with a dismissive hand wave. “You can go back to doing whatever the fuck it is you’re doing. But you have until the end of the year to mate, or I pick one for you.”
CHAPTER10
what’s a hot little witch doing in my woods?
Silvan had only agreed to take a patrol shift in the forest to appease his father and get the man thinking about somethingotherthan a mate for his son.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know the day would eventually come, but he’d hoped to delay it as long as possible.
Few things interested him less than sleeping with the same woman for the rest of his days. And besides, men remained virile well into their sixties and seventies. Why should he settle down now when he still had decades of fun ahead?
Silvan stopped at a stream to drink. Wateralwaystasted better in his wolf form. Drinking was primal and innate like sex.
Great, now I’m thinking about the damn witch again.
He finished and bounded off. Deeper into the forest he went. The others would stay near the lake because Asa said Claude’s body had been displayed for others to find and not hidden in the shadows. Fair enough, but Silvan didn’t believe for a second Claude was killed where they found him. Wolves were always in that part of the woods, which weren't exactly prime hunting grounds for sick and twisted vamps.
His muscles screamed in excitement as he pushed his pace. Drool dripped from his mouth and sprayed the gloaming. He ignored the ache and used it as fuel, moving faster and harder than he had in months. Years. Soon, his paws barely hammered the ground at all, and he was flying, soaring over cypress knees, logs and bushes and rabbits.
You don’t have to be that man.
Claude’s wisdom. Claude’s words. Claude’s fuckingvoice,coming together to form a memory still too painful to fully dredge.
You are the man you were born to be, Sil. Others may be waiting for you to come into yourself, but that’s their loss. You’ve already arrived precisely as you are. Our blood doesn’t make mistakes.
Was that why he’d been killed? Because the vamps sensed he was different from the other wolves? Would those same differences make Silvan a target?
Well, I’m waiting for you fuckers, and oh, how I wish you would fucking try.
Silvan pushed on, but the heart had been sucked from his run. His legs slowed, his breathing metered. He eyed a large stump peeking from the forest floor and determined it was a good place to rest, but before he could make the climb, his ears perked.
Nothing.
No, he’d definitely heard it.
He waited, and then it happened again. Cracking of branches. Crunching of leaves. Quickly, in his head, he measured the distance of the stride, the width of the step, and the force of impact, and determined it had to be humanoid. But on the smaller side, so a child or a young woman.
The only explanation for a child to be this deep in the woods was if it was lost.
A young woman, though…
Silvan stilled. Breath held, he waited for the person to come closer. Even without actively inhaling, he knew the scent anywhere.
Her.
Before he convinced himself he was acting irrationally, he bounded out and landed in a squared stance. Romy’s eyes flew wide, and her mouth formed for a scream, but he shook his wolf head, which was enough to give her the pause he needed.
Silvan’s flesh ripped as he shifted back into his human form. He drank in her little scandalized expression and determined he’d be the cause of it again one day, with his head between her legs. When he showed her what arealorgasm felt like.
Romy’s mouth grew wider and wider with each breaking bone and snapping tendon. She covered it when he was done and standing completely nude in front of her.
Her eyes traveled downward to the cock he did nothing to hide. He noted how long her appraisal lasted. Every millisecond was like a ring tightening around the base, increasing the swelling until he was ready to burst.
