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,
as Roger laughs and hugs me close,
mate, because I know it to be true now in a deep, physical way
that we’re
I don’t want to at all I push Roger away from me
my face with the
daughter,” she says, smiling up at me
see you so
as we move back to our
myself together.
say, hesitating, “um, does this mean that I’ll be able to take Roger’s
nodding. “It may take your human body
your sister can help with that. And
I ask curiously, thinking suddenly of the vision we had of little baby
grown up and finding his true love in a human girl. “Could
one?”
“though… they might not
wolf, though, Cora, will crave it. She probably already
the truth of it as my wolf steps closer
face. I grin, knowing that my
needing to confirm.
but
trying to convince Roger not to give me his mark the moment
much as I want it, I also want it to be special.
if not before but…no.
in my mind.
the words. “Will I be able to
spirit is that of a wolf, but your body is still human. It is incapable of
shudder of disappointment runs through me, but it’s short
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