A surprise mating ritual

Although I was still bothered by what had happened the previous day, I decided that I wasn't going to dwell on it any longer. I decided to even ignore the fact that Amber came back looking and acting like she was high on something and I brushed it off as being caused by the fact that she was just happy and excited that she had finally seen the vampires

I decided that there were far much more important things to worry about rather than obsessing over what Amber had been up to at the vampire coven. However, what worried me the most was the fact that she was doing these ups and downs while our mating ritual was still not done. The vampires were not the only threat that I worried about, I was worried about the wolves that were looking to use her to get to me, and the fact that we had not done our mating ritual left her open to that.

Amber and I hadn't been speaking about the mating ritual for a while and thought it was time for us to do that. We had put it off for too long and frankly I