Chapter 23: Affection.

Another failed attempt to see my mate has me tracing my way back to the cottage I live in, a shadow of myself as I use my heightened senses to guide me back. That’s when a mix of two foreign scents assail my nostrils. One of it seems faintly familiar and the other, completely…unknown to me.

So I speed my pace and arrive before them. With my voice hard, I ask, “Who are you and what do you want?”

“You must be Silver right?” What is with that serene voice that calms me down instantly? A warmth I’ve never felt before, searing through my being, arresting me from all angles and melting my despair away.

Provoked at the sudden infiltration, I try to speak back but…it all just simmers away, making my wolf stir peacefully and rendering me away from all fight. She speaks again.

“I’m sorry we came uninvited, but there are pressing matters to discuss with you” She tells me, haste in her voice and I nod lazily, still recovering from that beautiful attack.

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