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He wasn’t just hard. He was painfully engorged. His dick throbbed. He was wearing his boxers, and he could feel himself soaking the front of them. He was dripping for her. Was she as wet for him? She’d worked her pussy as a form of revenge, but was any of it real?

The second he got back to his house and had one minute of privacy, he was going to hurl himself into the shower and beat his dick back into submission. The fact that he hadn’t masturbated once since Lila’s death and now he figured he’d have to do it daily just to keep his balls and brain from exploding was far from lost on him.

She arched her back, but not to buck him off. All of it was to get closer.

Her kiss was vicious. She scored his lip with her teeth and then moaned like a little vampire at the taste of his blood. Was it real for her now?

She tore her mouth away and immediately replaced it with her fingers. She jammed them into his mouth before he could recover. He tasted her juices, tangy and maddening. He had rules and he was about to smash them all straight to the devil, but he didn’t even care. He turned over ignoring the screaming pain in his body and scrabbling for her waist to pull her on top of him. He’d give anything to have her on his cock for just a single minute and he didn’t have a single thought to spare for his self-control and everything else that he’d worked so hard for and wanted.

She escaped, slipping through his grasp like healing water. She denied him that sweet slaking of his thirst. She denied him healing.

He heard her gathering up her clothes, her fingernails scraping against the wooden floorboards in her haste, and then soft, frantic footsteps racing from the room.

He lay in the dark, panting against the pain, railing against the cage of his own body, his life, his circumstances.

If Seren had set out to prove to him just what a worthy adversary she could be, she’d succeeded.

Chapter 9

Seren

The night air was so warm that it made the autumn winds feel like they were still just a dream. She knew that as soon as September rolled into Wyoming, it usually brought early morning frost and cold nights with it. It was a rare Halloween that anyone was able to go out in a costume without a coat stuffed underneath and boots incorporated.

Seren stood with a group of women she’d been introduced to that afternoon. The excitement in the air was palpable. She was great with names, but there were so many people there that she couldn’t remember them all. Some preferred not to give their names and to remain near the back. She got that. A pack was a secret, private place. Even though she’d gotten a bit of a history lesson on the Nightfall Pack from Briar May and Prairie Rose that afternoon while they supervised a massive group of children, Waverly right in the thick of them and having the time of her life, she couldn’t begin to fathom what life was like here.

She now knew that Rome’s father had been alpha for nearly forty years. In that time, he’d done his best to bring the feuding packs in the area to a tentative peace. He’d grown their lands and built on the wealth already passed down to him, but peace was most important. They were able to flourish because they kept their borders protected and their private lives private. She couldn’t believe it when Zora had told her that as an outsider until she mated Kieran, she didn’t even know there were children in the pack who didn’t belong to the alpha and his mate. That’s how secretive the pack was.

It made Seren feel doubly honored that she’d been asked to participate in the run.

It also made her extremely nervous that she’d mess things up or commit some wolf faux pas that she didn’t know existed. She didn’t want to shame herself and she didn’t want to shame Rome.

She tried not to think about him as the women all around her started taking off their clothes. She flushed at the brazen, unembarrassed way they stripped down. The males and the females started in one area, and then join each other in a common part of the woods for the run. They’d branch back off hours later.

Prairie Rose, Zora, and Briar May made absolutely certain that she knew what to expect. They’d prepared her all afternoon. Unlike their brother, they were kindness itself. Rome’s mother was super sweet as well. Every single person adored Waverly. All her aunts and uncles, and there were so many that it made Seren’s head spin. The children of the pack, who were raised solely on pack lands and went to the community school there, made Waverly feel like she was one of them. Many hadn’t shifted for the first time yet either. They ranged in age from babies to kids in their late teens.

Kieran and Zora’s twins especially seemed enthralled by Waverly. Maybe it was because they’d been raised in the city until they were ten and hadn’t even met their dad. That too was pretty hard for Seren to believe. Zora didn’t hold back. She was very open about her and Kieran’s relationship. Briar May and Prairie Rose hadn’t talked at length about their mates, but Seren had met them briefly. They were fearsome looking men. They were probably even scarier as wolves.

Seren stripped off her shirt and pants and left them in a pile. She stood in her underwear, fighting the urge to cover herself, and looked up at the sky.

She’d been on runs with her parents. There were more than a few secluded areas outside the city, but she’d never truly seen the night sky like this. Dark purple-blue with billions of stars. She’d never been interested in astronomy and she knew very few constellations, but if she lived out in a place like this, she wouldn’t have been able to help herself. She would have belonged to the sky, enchanted by the power it held, the way it changed with the seasons.

The way it changed nightly.

“Seren.”

She cranked around to Briar May, who stood just behind her.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you. I just wanted to make sure you’re okay.”

“Yes. I’m… fine.”

“Okay. It can be intimidating, I’m sure. You’ve never been with so many wolves before. You can stay beside me if you want. No one will hurt you, so you don’t have to be cautious or wary or anything, but if you feel more comfortable with someone familiar, feel free to run with me.”

“Thank you.”

“You won’t have to worry about getting lost. This is a pack activity. There will be wolves everywhere. If you need anything, just let someone know.”

“I’m not even sure how to do that.”

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