It was no surprise I dreamed of her, she consumed all my waking thoughts, and not a night had gone by since meeting her where she wasn’t in my dreams as well. Something was different tonight though, where my other dreams had the quality of an echo, this seemed more.. real. I could hear her moving, listened to the soft steps as she circled me, coming closer bit by bit. I was enveloped in her scent, thick and rich like it can only be when she’s close. I didn’t need to open my eyes, all my other senses were on overdrive with her this near. I could hear her heart beat, listened with satisfaction as it spiked when she started touching me. I laid there, reveling in her shamelessness, letting her touch me however she pleased. Her light touch did nothing to stop the waves of electric tingles from racing across my skin in response to her, and I thought my pounding heart would surely give me away when she lay her palms on my chest. As she trailed her fingers lower it was a miracle I held stil

I crashed into consciousness, it felt as though I had been ripped bodily from my dream, my heart was racing and a fine sweat was covering my entire body. I looked around for someone or something that would explain my sudden waking but I found nothing, all was just as it had been when I had fallen asleep. The slight breeze coming in the room from the open window was the only relief I felt from the heat underneath my skin. It reminded me of how I felt before my first shift when my body was beginning to change, the heat coming from within was impossible to extinguish. While I lay there waiting for my heart to deaccelerate, my mind drifted back to the dream I’d had, and the wetness that was still calling for attention between my legs. If I closed my eyes I could still feel the press of his body, and the way the touch of his hands had a slight roughness to them. Remembering the feel of his mouth on my skin made me groan aloud, my body erupting in goosebumps at the thought of it. I

It had taken a couple days for Axle and I to put our low tech plan together, but I was feeling pretty good about it as we drove out town to the western border of the forest. Once we were far enough away from town I found an open spot and parked the Hummer on the side of the road. From there Axle and I started hiking, I hated leaving that car on the side of the road like that, but my priorities had shifted. Once we were far enough away from the road, I quickly stripped down and shifted while Axle pulled our supplies from a bag and crammed my clothes inside “What? Never said I was going to do your laundry too, now here boy let’s put your collar on.” He said with a grin, and a little dog whistle. I was irritated, but since I was in my wolf form, I just huffed at him for his insolence and sat still for him while he put our handiwork around my neck. My “collar” was made from 2 leather belts linked together, we had duct taped a hideous green donut print fanny pack Axle had found onto it,

It did not take long once we were in town for me to figure out our search for my mate was over. Axle and I had located and stopped in at the town’s grocery shortly after arriving to refill some of our snack supply and her scent was there, all over ever aisle, it was so strong she’d had to have been there within an hour of us. I had followed traces of her scent to the edges of this town last night, I had even circled around it looking for signs of her leaving and had found none. I did not know as of yet where she was hiding, but I was certain of one thing. She was here.We had already checked ourselves into yet another motel, while I admit this one was better than most we had been able to find, after weeks of traveling they were all awful. Goddess I missed my own bed, but I knew I could never truly rest or relax until I knew she was safe, and I had her with me, preferably in my arms. I suppose I might be alarmed at how strong my need to have her was becoming if I h

I stormed past the bar, making eye contact with Sam as I walked past, by the look in her eyes I could tell she was concerned for me, but if I explained everything now, I knew I would turn into and emotional crying mess. “I need ten minutes.” I said a little more stiffly than I would have liked, Sam did not deserve attitude from me, but I was so white hot mad it just leaked out into my words. Sam being Sam, she just nodded and let me go. I made my way out the back door to the loading dock and went straight up the stairs to my apartment. Only after the door closed behind me did I allow myself to lose my composure a little. I kicked the heels off my feet and halfway across the floor.  Stomping barefoot into the bathroom, I grabbed the curls I’d so carefully created and pulled my hair up into a high ponytail instead. Stepping back from the mirror I looked hard at myself. I had been so sure of myself, I had felt so beautiful earlier, now I only felt ashamed. All beca