Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty Eight

Hati's POV

I wake to the girl softly sleeping in front of me, not having moved or struggled to get away and despite my usual affliction it seems I've cuddled her all night.

Which is not something I choose to do.

I roll to my back looking to the ceiling with a sigh as I think about last night and what it meant for me, my future, Aspens future.

I've never tied with a girl before, never had pleasure such as last night when in a mixed form of myself and human, and strangely that forces me to feel some sort of loyalty to the girl that gave me more than I thought possible.

She's beautiful, that I'll admit.

But she isn't Aspen, she isn't my mate.

I have no emotional pull to the girl, at least I do not currently feel one.

But the problem has arisen that we did indeed tie and for wolves, especially, tying means the possibility of pregnancy fall.

And though I know the probability is slim to none, I cannot let her go.

I cannot give her back for fear that perhaps Zeus has given my a reprieve, th