I stood up to get a better viewpoint. “The clearings are obviously serving some sort of purpose, meaning pack members are here, but there is so much space that a trained person would probably be able to get past undetected. I would run patrol patterns in an arc and have two groups of two or four ru

“Wait up there Shorty.” Mateo pulls me into a hug from the back and kisses the crown of my head like he did the other night. Sam and Oliver hug and kiss me on either temple too. Sierra just walks by me laughing. “They can’t even let you go long enough to sleep. I need to get out of this dress and

The small space between them seemed to be calling to me. I padded toward the center of the foot of the bed and slowly crawled over the comforter that was piled there. I could feel their body heat from here and their combined scents of citrus and cinnamon is heavenly and my pulse instantly slows, lik

“Okay, my little love doves, we have to go and join the rest of the crowd and cheer on our favorite girl.” Sam comes bounding up to Oliver and I. I jump down from Oliver’s back and wrap my arms around Sam’s waist and he kisses the top of my head, Mateo steps up and I do the same thing. I turn to O

I head to the corner of the arena that has a yellow flag. Three other people joined me. My first sparring partner who seems to have done well for himself, he doesn’t look like he sustained many injuries. A poor guy who looks like he has been a human punching bag for everyone stumbles over. He has