Intoxication

Xander

"Brother!" I raised my head at my Sage's call. I had been going over the never-ending paperwork that went along with managing our foundation and investments. I welcomed any distraction I could get.

"What's happening, baby sister?" I laced my hands behind my head and stretched as she came running through my study door.

"I was down near Four Corners and there's a woman camped there. The woman." I raised my eyebrows in question. "The one from town, Vivi Fenrir. I never dreamed she'd come so close to our property. What do you want to do?"

My posture instantly shifted. Every muscle in my body tensed at the thought of her being so close. The woman called Fenrir Sage had mentioned earlier. Surely it couldn't be a coincidence.

"I've got to speak to Kane." I tried to quench the lick of hope that flared in my chest. I kissed Sage on the top of her head as I ducked out of the room. "Thank you, sister."

Quickly finding my second, Kane and I shifted and set off to check out this woman my sister had mentions. We loped across the forest floor toward the campground our large, padded feet making barely a sound.

With our heightened vision in our shifted state and the full moon illuminating our way, the dark woods were almost as bright as day. The small human campground was only five miles from the pack compound. It was an easy run to check out this woman with the name of the Norse wolf born of the god Loki.

My nose to the wind, I skidded to a halt when a captivating scent curled around my head and teased my nostrils. Kane stopped and trotted back to me. We spoke in our telepathic language, Rhuhi, that we used in our wolf forms.

"What's wrong, Alpha? We have another mile to the campground," Kane asked.

"Don't you smell that?" I stood stock still, staring into the darkness. I sniffed again. That scent, intoxicating. It wrapped around my senses until nothing else could penetrate. My fur rippled across my body in pleasure. My eyes closed and a low growl hummed through my deep chest.

Kane tilted his head in confusion but raised his long nose to give a deep sniff. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "What is that delectable smell?"

"I don't know, something…magical." Without warning, I shifted to my human form and Kane quickly followed suit.

We stood, sniffing the air as if in a trance. A slight smile played on our lips. Despite the cold, I felt my cock standing to attention, my arousal growing as the intoxicating fragrance danced through my body and mind.

Kane apparently wasn’t much better off. When I glanced at him, his eyes were closed and he rubbed at the stylized wolf tattoo on his chest that every member of the pack sported somewhere on their bodies.

I did the same, the ink warming under my hand. It was all I could do to not take my cock in my hand and stroke myself to completion. As hard as I was, I didn’t think it would take a moment.

"Xander, what is it, brother?" Kane’s eyes slowly opened and his expression was almost pained under the ecstasy.

I started to walk slowly along the animal track we had been following to the campground. "I'm not sure. I just know I need to find her." Her? Where had that come from? But as the thought flitted through my head, I knew it as sure as my own name. "Yes, that's it - a female. That's it. I must find her."

I started to move more quickly, ignoring the branches lashing my human skin, and the stones and sticks bruising my feet.

"Alpha, wait for me!" Kane caught up in three quick strides and ran alongside me trying to keep up with my much longer strides.

Soon, we were at the edge of the campground. A smoldering fire in the stone lined pit burned merrily and there was a large, family-sized tent pitched near a red Jeep Cherokee. We stared, noses in the air, searching desperately for the source of the completely intoxicating scent.

A beautiful melody suddenly curled around my head like a sweet smoke. A song coming from the voice of an angel. I closed my eyes and swayed like a lovesick pup. Without conscious thought, my feet started moving toward the music.

Luckily, my Beta showed slightly more control this time and threw up an arm to stop me from going any farther. My eyes popped open and a low growl escaped my throat.  “You were about to walk right into the human's camp." He scanned me up and down. "Like that."

I looked down at myself and saw the bleeding scratches covering my body and felt the pain on the bottom of my feet. I also noted I was so hard it was almost painful. Before I could ask more questions, the tantalizing scent came again. My head tipped back, and I groaned in pleasure. A shudder ran through me. "She's here," I said huskily.

Kane’s breath came in deep gasps and I could tell he was fighting for control as well. He whipped a hand up to his face and held his nose like he could block the scent from affecting him. It must have worked somewhat as he was able to take a strong hold of my arm and give me a quick shake. I would normally never be manhandled this way, but these were extenuating circumstances.

"We have to shift, Alpha. Heal our injuries and hide ourselves. If the woman is here, she's going to panic if she sees two large, tattooed, strange men walking into her camp. Shift, man!"

Finally hearing my friend's words. I dropped my head, sighed heavily, and with more effort than it had required in centuries, shifted. Kane quickly followed suit in relief. We melted back into the tree line and started to circle the camp.

The woman seemed to be alone. There was no evidence of any other presence. The smell of honeysuckle and vanilla permeated my senses as we got closer and closer to the tent. I could smell the lingering scent of coffee in the air as well as frying meat but overlying all these basic scents was the one that tugged at my very soul. Something unique to this female I had never scented before. I couldn't help but follow it and quickly found myself closing in on the woman's bright orange tent. Kane rushed to my side, calling to me in Rhuhi.

"Jesus, Alpha! What is happening to us?"

"I don’t know but it’s the most amazing thing I have ever experienced. I don't just smell it. It has invaded all my senses and my mind. I feel...alive!" My whole body shuddered again; my body so sensitized that the breeze rustling my fur had me groaning in need. I tried to move closer to the tent, but Kane suddenly blocked me with his body.

His black hackles rose and he bared a sharp canine. The shock of this show of aggression had me freezing in my tracks. My lips curled up in response and a low rumble sounded in my chest. Kane suddenly looked ashamed and cut his eyes from mine.

“I am so sorry, Alpha! I-I don’t know what came over me.” He lowered himself to the ground in front of me, showing his neck in a show of submission.

"Get up, Kane. I don’t know what’s happening either, only that I've never experienced anything like this before." I turned my head back to the tent. "I must see her, brother."

Kane swallowed and panted heavily, looking from me to the tent where a light suddenly clicked on.”

I whined and nearly came right there as the silhouette of a curvy woman stood outlined against the thin orange fabric of the tent.

My heart thudded so hard against my chest I thought my ribs would crack. Cutting a glance at my Beta, I knew he felt it, too-- an overwhelming need to see this woman, to touch her, to claim her. The need settled into the very marrow of my bones.

Then I heard the teeth of the zipper that closed the tent flaps start to part.