Chapter 0384

Nicholas and I traded lazy kiss after lazy kiss until our backs ached and the sun crept above the tree line. We’d chased passion all night long, again and again. Despite my continuous begging, Nicholas never took me in the dirt. Though he’d given me pleasure in nearly every other way.

My body was pleasantly sore. I really needed a bath and a nap. Maybe a good meal.

The wild feeling, I supposed, was wearing off somewhat, and reality was returning.

“We should head back,” Nicholas said.

He was naked. I was too. Our clothes definitely went flying sometime in the night. We laughed as we went searching for them now.

“I found your panties,” he said and tossed them to me. I found my bra on a low- hanging tree branch. Nicholas pulled on his pants.

“Do you see my dress?” I asked.

He stopped moving. I went closer to him, and saw what he saw. My dress was a bloody mess, piled in a hump at the bottom of a tree trunk.

“Don’t put that back on,” he said.

“I can’t walk home naked.”

“Go back as a wolf, then.”

“I can’t,” I said. “Everyone thinks I don’t have a wolf. How would I possibly explain?”

have to explain. Let them

dress,” I said, and took a step toward

him. He had on his pants but no shirt yet. My skin pleasantly tingled where our bare skin touched.

“Nick…”

almost died, Piper.” His voice was soft as a whisper, barely louder than the wind. “Please do

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see myself as a bloody mess again either. I imagined it might be worse for him. I tried to think what it would be like if our roles were switched: if he had nearly

the dress. I’d find another way. Even if I

as a wolf.

I said. “You

let me go and found his shirt. It was wrinkled beyond repair but he still put it on and did up as many

Nicholas had released his grip on my hands, some of his clothes … suffered the wrath of my temporary confinement. Not that I’d minded. I just

back to the palace, Nicholas dressed as much as he could be, with me following behind in wolf form. Fortunately, his phone had not been damaged in our night

and helped guide us back to the guards at my door with minimal effort. I thought I might have to shift then, so the guards could see me and I could give the

can verify it’s you after you’ve changed,” Nicholas

in wolf–form, I likely would

for me and I sneaked inside. Elva, blessedly, wasn’t here. The room was empty. They must

you later,” Nicholas

form. I must have looked a mess, but Nicholas still

have to go,” he

go,” I teased.

make it

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him senseless. But I also wanted a shower. And clothes that didn’t

I eventually

back twice as he exited the room. I didn’t move until the door latched behind him, half expecting him

only mildly disappointed

to shower and change. I cranked the shower as hot as it could and

needed to remember to bring a blanket or something. Mental note.

go,

right in the trash. They were torn and grass-

clean and dressed, I stepped out of the bathroom. Elva, the nanny, Charlotte, and Mark were all standing in the room now. They all glanced at me.

“Mommy?” she asked.

once. I was so happy to see her. I hadn’t seen her before everything happened. I remembered the pain on that balcony after being stabbed, when I had wished so badly that I could see

I wouldn’t have to for a long,

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