Page 33 of Remy & the Wildcat

“I wish you and Mom could be here,” Remy said to his dad on the phone as he dressed for the joining ceremony. Wildcats wore all black for the joining ceremony so he’d purchased jeans, a fitted t-shirt, socks, and shoes that were solid black, and Thyme was going to wear jeans and a black tank top that showed just the right amount of cleavage to drive him wild.

“Us too,” Linus said. “But I understand how ceremonies can be closed to group members only, even for immediate family. We’d be there with bells on if we could be.”

“Thanks, Dad.”

“How’s it going? You’ve had a hell of a week with her family.”

“I think it’s going okay. We have the support of most of the pride, so her half-brother and his family couldn’t say that there were not pride members supporting us. But anything can happen, and I won’t trust that we’re out of the woods with him until the full moon.”

“When can we see you? We’d like to come visit or have you and Thyme visit here.”

“After the full moon, but I’ll let you know for sure.”

“Remy?” Thyme called for him from outside of the main bedroom.

“Yeah babe, give me a second,” he called back. “I need to run, Dad. Give Mom my love, and the girls too.”

“What about Lennox?” Linus asked with a chuckle.

“Give him a punch on the arm.”

There was a smacking sound and his brother said, “Ouch, bro, what the hell?”

Remy laughed. “Thanks. Love you.”

“Love you too, son. Be safe.”

Remy ended the call and joined Thyme in the family room, where she stood near the window.

“You look amazing,” he said, gripping her waist and smiling down at her. She was petite and curved, and just perfect in every way.

She rested her hands on his shoulders and bit her bottom lip as her eyes shone with excitement. “I’m so glad we made it to Friday.”

“Did you worry we wouldn’t?”

“I don’t know,” she said. “I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been a little concerned.”

“I’ll admit that it felt tenuous at times, but you’re right, we did make it and we can face anything together.”

“Definitely,” she said. “Are you ready to go? We should head out to the clearing.”

“I’m ready.”

He lowered his head and kissed her.

She went onto her toes and wrapped her arms around his neck, tilting her hips and brushing her body along his. He pushed slightly on her hips with a chuckle. “Feisty sweetheart, we need to leave, not get something started.”

“You’re very tempting, I can’t help myself.”

“It’s only because we need to get moving that I’m not following through on the desire to toss you over my shoulder and head back to the bedroom.”

“Oh, that sounds fun.” Her eyes glittered with arousal, a hint of teasing in her tone.

“Later,” he promised.

Together they left the house and he drove to her father’s house, which was closest to the clearing the pride used for ceremonies. As soon as the sun set, the ceremony would commence and they’d be interim alphas until the full moon, when the ascension ceremony would occur and the elders would officially hand over control of the pride to them.

Remy never expected that he’d be the alpha of a wildcat pride, but he was looking forward to the challenge of being alpha alongside his beautiful mate. They’d both been raised to be alphas, and there wasn’t anything that was going to stop that from happening.

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