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 –
whenever she is,
eyes at this, as Roger laughs and hugs me close,
it
we’re being
to at all I push Roger away from me just sitghtly
wiping the tears from my face with the back of my
at me
see you
hand tightly as we move back to our
myself together.
does this mean
your human body longer to heal from it,” she
little shrug, “but your sister can help with that. And
humans?” I ask curiously, thinking suddenly of the vision
his true love in a human girl. “Could they take a mark, if
one?”
could,” my mother says with a smile, “though… they might not find the
though, Cora, will crave it. She probably already
I feel the truth of it as my wolf steps closer to Roger’s
his face. I grin,
needing to confirm.
chagrined but unable to
convince Roger not to give me his mark the moment we step out
much as I want it, I also want it to be special. Knowing my
in the back of that RV if
though, another question crops up in my mind. “Does this mean…um,” I
trying to find the words. “Will I be able to shift?
sorry, my darling,” my mother says quietly, shaking her head. “Your spirit is that of a
disappointment runs through me, but it’s short lived.
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