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Roars of approval echoed back, and I appreciated them tremendously.
The pack accepted us.
That felt really damn good.
“Shift, both of you,” Madd commanded, his voice low enough that I knew he was talking just to me and Tori.
Neither of us hesitated. Our wolves replaced our human forms, and they howled to the sky together, my brown wolf, and her ginger one.
Most of the pack shifted on the spot, howling with us. After Madd’s wolf brushed up against mine, murmuring into her mind that she needed to stay behind him, she purred in approval.
Then, he took off into the forest.
My wolf had no problem keeping up with him, and more shifters barreled into the trees behind us.
Excitement coursed through her veins.
Though I was unsure about the pack, she was thrilled.
They felt like family to her.
She felt like she belonged.
And hell, shewantedto be one of them.
Despite my own feelings, I was happy she felt so good about it. She was a part of me, but she was an individual, too. She deserved to feel happy, safe, and loved, even if I wasn’t going to let myself fall into that trap.
I’d protect us however I had to—even though it included figuring out how to keep Archer Madden at bay, when I wanted him more than I had words to describe.
We ran for hours,finally making it back to Madd’s house in the middle of the night. Though exhaustion weighed on me, my spirits were higher than I could ever remember them.
I felt… happy.
Insanely, ridiculously happy.
That was weird, right?
It had to be weird.
Tori had taken off with a group of female wolves a few hours earlier, so I didn’t bother waiting for her. She started work later than I did, anyway.
I shifted back to my human form at the edge of the yard, a smile I couldn’t erase stretched across my face. Madd’s wolf rubbed up against my side, rumbling when I rubbed his fur, before he shifted.
His bare chest brushed my back again as we headed inside his house. My stuff was still in his truck, but I didn’t give a damn.
“We only have one bed?” I asked him.
“Yes.”
My smile faded slightly.
He was a giant, so I couldn’t force him to sleep on the couch. And I knew him well enough to know he wouldn’t let me sleep there.
So we’d be sharing.
But sharing a bed was a dangerous game. One that could easily lead to more. And I still wanted to experience sex, but I figured it would be hard to leave him after we were together like that.
Plus, I was supposed to be treating him like a roommate.
