I couldn’t tell if Sam’s expression was frustration or anger as he stood there with his arms crossed, blocking me from going up the stairs. “What’s the matter?” I asked him.
When he shook his head, his dark curls danced, making me want to reach up and run my fingers through them, but I didn’t know if that would be a welcomed gesture at t
It might’ve done me well to go out to the woods to get myself together, but I didn’t. Instead, I lay in my bed, staring at the ceiling, until I decided to go to sleep. I hadn’t heard Sam or Ben come back into the house, and not long after I closed my eyes, I heard their howls, along with a few others, fill the night air.Despite my unsettled thoughts, I m
It was the feel of Sam’s lips on my skin that woke me in the morning. When I opened my eyes, the sunlight was streaming into my bedroom through the window, and his arms were still around me, his lips gently peppering soft kisses along my neck and shoulder. It felt so nice, I didn’t want him to know I was awake for fear he might stop.I couldn’t fool him,
For the next few weeks, I spent a lot of time in the forest, trying to figure out whether or not Sam’s concern that I had imprinted on Ben, and he on me, was true. While I felt more at peace when I was in the forest, more empowered, I didn’t feel like this was something the forest wanted me to be concerned with at the moment. She continued to steer me in the direction of enlarging the house, growing the pack, and forcing Verina out of the woods.
The two strangers in front of me, the same individuals I’d seen in California in their wolf forms in my back yard that had caused us to have to leave to come to Montana, looked just as menacing as humans as they did as wolves. The girl had short, dark hair, wild with curls, and narrow eyes. She was tall and muscular. She wore the same sort of outfit Raven had when she shifted, and honestly, they looked a little similar, though I wasn’t about to declare they were related. The male was even taller than her, with broad shoulders, though not as muscular as Sam, and shoulder-length, dirty blond hair that fell in uneven waves. He was scruffy even as a human.
After a dinner of stew, which Raven had put on hours ago, with plenty for all of us, including our visitors, When we were all done, and the dishes were clear, we gathered in the living room. I was hopeful Everly and Ronin would tell us about my dad. Over dinner, they’d chatted about how they spent most of their time traveling in their wolf forms from forest to forest, never staying in any one place very long. They said there were a few other members of their pack still out there, but not many, and most had given up on their wolves long ago, trying to blend into regular society. The other shifters at the table, my wolves, had made faces at that, and I got the impression it must b
“Both?” Everly asked me, her eyebrows raised. “You can’t have two Alphas, dear.”“No, I know that,” I assured them. “But I also don’t know how I’ll ever choose between them. They’ve told me that it’s possible for a Mage not to choose, that she could just have two or more… lovers.” It was h
Work on the house began a few days before school started. The extension was being added on near Ben and Joshua’s room. I told them they could stay in Grandma’s room for a while if they wanted to, but instead, they moved into the living room because they didn’t think I really meant it when I said they could have her room. I probably didn’t. I hoped the workers would at least get the part of the house that required the exterior wall of the dining room to be replaced by a sheet of plastic done soon because I wanted the guys to have their privacy back. Not that it was exactly private when they had to share a room anyway, but it was better than having them camped ou
My hope that I’d have at least one member of my pack in each of my classes faded pretty quickly. First period, I had History. Joshua was in that class, but so were a couple of the Parker pack members--Wayne Crawford and Billy Parker. I didn’t know Wayne, though he looked kind of slimy, the way he kept looking at me with a crooked smirk on his face. Billy was one of the two guys who’d been involved in the accident. I’d saved his life--after I’d found him lying on top of my sister in the back of a truck. He didn’t look at me at all.