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 –
he’s ready, whenever she
the tears that pour from my eyes at this, as Roger laughs and hugs me close, as I adjust myself,
mate my mate, my fated mate, because I know it to be true now in a deep, physical way before I remember, of course, that
we’re being
though I don’t want to at all I push Roger away from me just sitghtly and
wiping the tears from my face with the back of my
right, daughter,” she says, smiling up at me from her place
you
we move back to our chairs, I do my
myself together.
does this mean that I’ll be able to
your human body
little shrug, “but your sister can help
humans?” I ask curiously, thinking suddenly of the vision we had of little baby
finding his true love in a human
one?”
my mother says with a smile, “though… they might not find
Cora, will crave it. She
as my wolf
up into his face. I grin, knowing
needing to confirm.
chagrined but unable to stop smiling. It is
his mark the
also want it to be special.
the back of that RV if not before but…no. I
another question crops up in
find the words. “Will I be
my darling,” my mother says quietly, shaking her head. “Your spirit is that
little shudder of disappointment runs through me, but it’s short
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