Total pages in book: 203
Estimated words: 199654 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 998(@200wpm)___ 799(@250wpm)___ 666(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 199654 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 998(@200wpm)___ 799(@250wpm)___ 666(@300wpm)
“Solid theory.”
“So, I figured it was the soul of this future daughter I kept hearing whenever I was trying to push away any feelings of a future with you. Like maybe I was preventing her future, which was really messing with me. But now I know it wasn’t our future child. It was the wolf inside me. The wolf I didn’t think I had. Jase, I have a wolf!”
“You sure do, baby. Congratulations!”
“But I don’t think we’re in synch. I don’t think I have any control. I don’t know how I shifted and I know I only shifted back because you alpha-commanded me. I now know for a fact it was my wolf communicating with me, but suddenly, my wolf was here! I watched, I could see what was happening, and I couldn’t do anything to influence any of it.”
“Think back to what happened right before you shifted.”
“Well… I opened the first container of food and saw the blood and instead of being grossed out by it, I was salivating. I had to eat it. Had to. I stuck my finger in it and licked my finger, then suddenly something pushed out from here.” She puts her hand against her chest. “The push didn’t hurt, it felt weird. Tingly. Bubbly, almost? She just… expanded out from here.” She touches her chest. “And she was hungry. So hungry.”
“Yeah, I vaguely remember that sensation when I first started shifting.”
“I didn’t know at first what was happening, but then I saw things through a different lens that let me know I was shifted. Let’s go for a run, Jase. Like… right now! How do I get her to come back?”
“Bailey… your wolf is a pup.”
She frowns. “It always sounded like a young wolf to me.”
“Because it is. Your wolf is tiny.” I show her with my hands how big her wolf is. Around the length of a loaf of bread.
“What color is my fur?”
She doesn’t look upset. She looks ecstatic. And I can imagine she must be after living her life as half shifter with some shifter senses but thinking she’s without a wolf.
I tell her, “You know my wolf’s colors? Yours is the opposite. Cream. Tan dipped tail.”
Her jaw drops. “Weird.”
“Not so weird with all we know now, is it?”
She shakes her head. “Guess not.”
I say, “When I first started shifting, I was small. Real young. And I didn’t have much control over my wolf, which was obviously small, too. Took a while before I could shift on demand, but an alpha could always get me to shift on command. Control came with time, with frequent shifting. Pops would take me out daily so I could practice.”
“Oh.”
“So, your wolf was telling you to mate me so she could meet us both.”
“Yeah,” she says softly, more tears in her eyes.
I kiss her and purr some more.
She snuggles in for a minute, then pulls back. “Shit. Sorry. My wolf ate your dinner.”
I laugh. “And bit me.”
“My wolf,” she beams dreamily before straightening up. “I could make you something,” she offers.
“No thanks.” I raise my hands. “Don’t need food poisoning ruining our mating night.”
“Hey!”
She acts disgruntled and gives me a playful shove.
I laugh. “She wanted that striploin somethin’ fierce. Wanted no part of yours since it was well done. You want, I can whip us up something.”
“I’m not sure. Maybe I ate enough.”
“She ate the bulk of that strip; a whole lot of meat for a pup so tiny.”
“How about I clean this up while you make yourself something? If I get hungry, I can get something after. I will have some of that honeymoon mead, though.”
“I say we clean up together and then you hang out with me and drink some honeymooning mead while I make something, then if you decide you’re hungry, you can eat with me.”
“Okay,” she agrees. “Be right back. Need the little she-wolf’s room.” She beams a huge smile as I chuckle and grabs a robe to put on before leaving the room. I examine the take-out containers. The sides are still here, untouched, so I’ll warm them up.
48
BAILEY
I have the goofiest smile on my face as I examine my mate mark in the mirror. Not only do I have Jason’s teeth prints on my skin after giving him my virginity, after becoming his lifelong mate… I also have a wolf.
I have a wolf! Nerdy, clumsy little half-blood Bailey Blackwood has an actual wolf!
I could bawl some more right now. I have Jase. I have a mate mark. My introduction to sex was better than I could’ve ever hoped for.
Like… seriously… if you’re going to wait twenty-five years and fill your life with spicy romance novels, it’s best to make sure that when you finally give it away, it goes to someone who knows what they’re doing. And though I have no frame of reference not having been with anybody but Jase, I do believe his skills in the sex department are stellar. I’m a lucky girl to get the guy of my dreams and have everything be as dreamy as it was.