What was this?
I breathed deeply again. I needed more of whatever that was. My body craved it with every nerve and fiber.
While I was lost in the hazy, distracting sensation, I suddenly realized that this might be…the mating heat?
How is that possible? I thought my wolf was dormant.
No matter what it is, I need to go home now.
There was danger nearby, and I had no mate – not even a chosen one anymore – to share this heat with.
I shook my head, trying to clear the dizzying sensation. I managed to rise to my feet and started to make my way home, but the intoxicating smell kept coming towards me and getting stronger, as if it was coming from someone running towards me.
Was this what was triggering me into heat?
“Lads, look what we’ve found,” a low voice suddenly spoke from the tree-line. “A female wolf in heat.”
I whirled to face the man who stepped into the clearing. He was tall and lean. His face bore the stubble of a few days unshaven.
More strangers stepped from the trees. They wore rough denim and leather. Knives and nets hung from their belts.
They smelled sweaty, almost blocking the delightful smell from earlier.
They must be Rogues! I realized with horror.
“Looking for something, pretty?” a flash of teeth in the dark beneath dark, shadowed pits for eyes.
“No, I was just leaving,” I could hear my voice shaking.
“Why leave? If you’re looking for a mate-” the man inhaled a shuddering breath, sniffing the air pointedly, “and it certainly smells like you are… then I’m sure we have several young bucks who would be willing to help, right lads?”
Murmured approval rose. They were fanning out behind me now, cutting off my escape.
“G-Get away from m-me,” I tried to growl. “I don’t w-want you!”
Another man laughed. “Looks like we got ourselves a feisty one, lads.”
The man lunged forward. I felt his fingers snatch at the hem of my coat, yanking me backwards towards him.
Tears started to well in my eyes as he grabbed at me.
“LEAVE HER ALONE!”
A voice cracked through the air like thunder. That intoxicating scent that had triggered my heat immediately enveloped me.
Avery’s POV
One of the rogues scoffed without even looking at who was behind him. “Back off, lad. Go find your own girl-“
“Wait. He’s not…” another stammered.
The rogues all turned their attention to the man behind them.
I saw a figure, all in black, standing there. His height and broad shoulders emanated strength and power.
He looked even stronger than Ryan, who was already a strong Alpha, but I couldn’t see his face in the dark.
“I said, leave her alone. Don’t make me say it a third time,” the man warned the rogues again.
“Shit, let’s go-,” The rogues stumbled back, muttering curses, and then fled away.
And then there was silence.
Now I was alone with him. From here, I could sense that he was in heat as well. I felt drawn to him like a moth to flame.
For one second, warning bells blared in my mind. Had I traded one pack of predators for an even more dangerous one?
Then he started walking towards me. With every step, the intoxicating smell became heavier, luring me in as we drew closer to each other.
“Mine,” The stranger said while his arms slid around my waist, sending bolts of honeyed lightning down my spine.
I swallowed hard. He was irresistible.
My fingers scrabbled at his forearms, but the heat of him as he pulled me against him… Oh my goodness.
My pulse still pounded, but now it pounded in time with his heartbeat.
I found myself clinging to his shoulders instead of pushing him away.
One of his hands stroked from my waist up my side and came to rest on the side of my neck.
Then he tilted my face towards the moon, his mouth claiming mine in a searing thunderclap.
What a kiss! I gasped, and parted my lips to let him take more of me.
Static frizzed across my nerves as his mouth and tongue claimed mine.
No one has ever kissed me like this!
Time stuttered past in gasps of breath and heat.
His lips and hands dragged wildfire across my skin, and lower.
I squirmed as his hands parted my clothing, and then moaned as he sank his fingers between my legs where my core was wet and ready.
Already we had leaped past anything I had ever done with Ryan.
I found I didn’t care. There was only this man. Only he mattered now.
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