My head fell back against the hard trunk of the tree against my back. The images of Sasha rushed away as I felt the pressure in my cock break.
I closed my eyes, my cock twitching with the last drops of cum. I shook my head and chuckled a bit.
Even in my fantasy, I couldn’t fully take her. I couldn’t bring myself to imagine what it would feel like inside her, no matter how badly I may want to. I just couldn’t imagine what I couldn’t allow myself to have.
‘You’re a fool,’my wolf said to me.
“I understand that that’s how you feel,” I replied. “But there are some things that you don’t understand. Some things that she will never let go of.”
I found a large leaf and cleaned myself up the best I could before pulling my jeans back on and straightening out my shirt.
In all my distractions, I had lost control of my grounding and the forest seemed to have shifted around me. I let out an annoyed sigh as I reestablished the connection and located the others at the camp.
Luckily enough, I hadn’t been shifted too far from them. Just in the opposite direction as where I had left, but the same distance either way. I sent a small thanks to the forest for not shifting me closer to the camp, given the position I had been in. It would have been mortifying if the others had seen me finish with Sasha’s name on my lips.
I approached the camp and found the others sitting around a fire and realized too late that my arms were empty.
“I thought you were going to get wood,” Sasha said as she spotted me crossing the boundary of the camp.
“Yeah, where is all that wood you went to look for, Ayden,” Baer taunted with a grin.
“I dropped it. Lost my ground with the forest and it shifted. I figured I’d better not worry about the wood and just get back here before it happened again.” I lied quickly. I glared at Baer as he stifled a laugh, Aurora looking back at him with confusion.
Sasha rolled her eyes and turned back to the fire. “Whatever, I got plenty of wood myself. So, don’t worry about it.”
Baer lost it then, nearly falling over with laughter as Aurora demanded to know what was so funny.
I glared at him again, tears running down his face as he clutched his sides.
“The forest can have that effect on people,” I said to Aurora. “Maybe you two should go to bed. He needs rest.”
“Well, I certainly don’t need any wood,” Baer laughed as Aurora struggled to pull him to his feet and towards their tent. “But you two let me know if you need anymore. I’m pretty sure I could find a big piece if I really wanted to.”
“What does that even mean?” Aurora cried out in annoyance.
Sasha stared after them with her own confusion. Her head turned towards me for a moment before her eyes widened and she looked around again. I wondered if she realized what Baer had been joking about. Wondered if maybe she realized what I had really been doing in the forest.
Or maybe she simply realized that we were now alone, Baer’s laughter muffled within his tent with her cousin.
“Well, I guess I’ll be going to bed too. I imagine we’ll be up at sunrise, that comes pretty quickly this time of year, so, yea. Night.”
I watched her stumble clumsily to her feet before running over to the second tent that had been erected in the camp. She disappeared inside and quickly zipped the flap closed behind her.
My hand wiped across my face as I stared into the fire, the lite growing faint as it ate the few pieces of wood that Sasha had collected.
“Baer is going to make this entire trip incredibly uncomfortable,” I groaned to myself.
‘It’s natural to desire your mate. You have nothing to be ashamed of,’my wolf said.‘He has the same desires for his mate.’
I chuckled. “Doesn’t mean that this isn’t uncomfortable for me.”
My wolf huffed.‘You humans put too much thought into comforts. Comfort is comfort, and desire for your mate is something no one can avoid. The Fates made it so.’
I leaned back, my arms pillowing my head against the ground as I looked up into the glittering trees.
“Maybe you’re right,” I said. “Maybe my feelings are completely unavoidable. But I’ve known plenty of stories about men accomplishing greater odds.”
He let out a huff of disapproval in my head.