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 is,
at this, as Roger laughs and hugs me close, as I adjust myself, as best
few moments to cling to my mate my mate, my fated mate, because I know it to be true
that we’re being incredibly
want to at all I push Roger away from
the tears from my
me from her place in her chair. “It does me
you so
back to our chairs, I
myself together.
say, hesitating, “um, does this mean that I’ll be
take your human body longer to heal from
help with that. And it will do
suddenly of the vision
in a human girl.
one?”
my mother says with a smile, “though… they might not
wolf, though, Cora, will
me I feel the truth of it as my wolf steps closer to Roger’s
against him and looking up into his face. I grin, knowing that my mother
needing to confirm.
think to myself, a little chagrined but unable to stop smiling. It is
his mark the moment we step out of this
want it, I also want it to be special.
of that RV if not before
up in my mind.
the words. “Will I be able to shift?
says quietly, shaking her head. “Your spirit is that of a wolf, but your body is still human. It
through me, but it’s short lived. I’ve
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