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
from my eyes at this, as Roger laughs and hugs me close, as I adjust myself, as
a few moments to cling to my mate my mate, my fated mate, because I know it to
that we’re
at all I push Roger away from me
sorry,” I say, wiping the tears from my face with the back
she says, smiling up at me from her place in her chair. “It does me
you so
holding Roger’s hand tightly as we move back to our chairs, I do my very best to
myself together.
this mean that I’ll be able to take
Goddess says, nodding. “It may take your human body longer to heal
“but your sister can help with that. And it will do
humans?” I ask curiously, thinking suddenly of the vision we
and finding his true love in a human girl. “Could they take a mark, if they
one?”
with a smile, “though… they might not find the joy in it, as
though, Cora, will crave it. She probably already
it as my wolf steps
him and looking up into his face. I grin,
needing to confirm.
but unable to stop smiling. It is going to be…quite
convince Roger not to give me his mark the moment we step
want it to be special. Knowing my
of that RV if not
suddenly, though, another question crops up in my mind. “Does this mean…um,”
find the words. “Will I be able to shift?
is that of a
me, but it’s short lived. I’ve already
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