Chapter 392: Questions Answered

Cora

My eyes flash open as I gasp, fascinated and thrilled at the having finally, finally

met my wolf – who has been here all along –

My mother smiles warmly at me, but when I turn to Roger I only see shock on

his face as he stares at me with wide eyes.

“Can you – can you sense her?” I ask, thrilled and curious.

“Um, yeah, Cora,” he says, looking me up and down in fascinated shock. ” Can’t

you feel mine?”

And I feel my wolf turn then, looking for him, and suddenly – frankly, like a slap

in the face I feel Roger’s wolf standing right there on the other side of our bond,

which snaps instantly into place –

I gasp, and my knees go literally weak at the sudden intensity of it –

Roger’s up in an instant, catching me in his arms before I can fall to the ground

because… Because it feel like gravity shifts, suddenly, and what used to be

down is now sideways, and at the center of everything now….

…is Roger.

“Hey,” Roger says, anxious, looking down at me as I stare up into his face, as

my shy wolf comes forward to tap her nose hesitantly against his across our

mating bond.

Roger’s wolf gives a great bay of joy and leaps forward, making my wolf skitter

back a step. But he doesn’t stop, closing the distance instantly and nuzzling his

body against her, nipping playfully at her shoulder, burying his nose deep in her

fur –

My poor new wolf shies again for a moment – not from fear just…just because

it’s all so new – and I feel Roger’s wolf respond, prancing around her with joy

and letting her know with his body language that he’s thrilled she’s here –

she is, to

laughs and hugs me close,

best I can, to

to cling to my mate my mate, my fated

it to be true now in a deep, physical way –

course, that my mother is

even though I don’t want to

me just slightly and turn

the tears from my face with the back of

just -”

at me from

me good to

we move back to our chairs, I do

to pull

I say, hesitating, “um, does this mean that I’ll

mark?”

says, nodding. “It may take your human

a little shrug, “but your sister can help with that.

you

curiously, thinking

his true love in a human girl. ”

mark, if

with a smile, “though…they might not find the

though, Cora, will

does.”

me I feel the truth of it as wwolf steps closer to

against him and looking up into his face. I grin,

my mother is right, not needing

think to myself, a little chagrined but unable to stop smiling. It

struggle, trying to convince Roger not to give me

we step out of this temple But, as much as I want it, I also want it

to sink

– if not before but…. no. I

another question crops up in my mind.

find the words. “Will I be able to shift?

my wolf?”

sorry, my darling,” my mother says quietly, shaking her

of a wolf, but your body is still human.

of disappointment runs through me, but it’s

received so, so much more than I had

about the baby?” Roger asks, interrupting my train of thought with a

up, curious, and am tickled to find that my wolf

reflecting my own. “Will the

does his best to hide his anxiety on this point, but I can see

at his tense face. Roger wants, very badly, to be able to bond with his

– as he

of Cora’s child, Roger,” my mother says, a phrasing

actually also answers questions for me that this is

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