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CHAPTER ONE
There were days that
reminded Holly not to get too big for her britches—and that wasn’t a
self-deprecating crack about being a curvy girl. She felt one of those humbling moments
coming, even though she’d just put ten hours in at her research desk at the
Agency and all she had been thinking about was getting home and shucking off
her painfully professional skirt suit and ill-fitted overcoat and brushing her
brown hair out of its overly tight bun.
Walking up to the front door of the supermarket, however, brought more
to mind than the fact that she was out of eggs.
The chubby little
girl, maybe all of twelve years old, standing on the wide slab of cold, gray
sidewalk with her straight brown hair whipping across her face in the chill
wind could easily have been Holly ten years before. The situation was familiar enough, as well,
with three older boys standing over the girl and sneering down at her as she
glared silently back at them. They were
all still so awkward in their bodies, with one boy far too scrawny for his baggy
jeans, another with arms too long for his sleeves, posture stilted by an
adolescent effort to look cool. For her
part, the girl was round-faced and round in the middle, padded out to silly
proportions by her puffy pink coat. And
all of them so serious about establishing and enforcing the social pecking
order that always slotted brains and chubby kids at the bottom.
This little Holly
kept her expression cold, smooth, disdainful in the face of jibes about fat
girls. Holly knew from experience that the
boys’ interest in tormenting the girl wouldn’t last as long when their victim
refused to cry or tremble or show much concern at all over their cruelty. The very same tactic had insulated Holly from
the same kind of bullying as a child, as an orphan shuttled from foster home to
foster home, as a pudgy teen with zero fashion sense beyond the knowledge that
black was slimming, as a bookish college student with a couple too many hours
to her hourglass figure.
As Holly got closer
to the door, she could see there was a little more to the story, with the
little chubby girl clutching a small husky pup.
The dog’s pale blue eyes showed considerably more fear than the child’s
as one or another of the lanky boys grabbed for its tail or poked at it. There was no way for Holly or the girl to
explain to the pup their particular method for freezing out the pointless,
indiscriminate anger of soulless people, so it showed its panic too readily,
trying to burrow into her puffy coat.
On another day, Holly
might have walked past the kids without stopping. It seemed heartless, she knew. Most of the other adults who went about their
business without intervening did so because….
Well, kids will be kids, and plenty of them had themselves teased and
bullied classmates for being fatties or weaklings or brains. Plenty of others had been teased and didn’t
want the reminder of the humiliation.
Holly, had she just let it go, would have done so for the sake of the
girl, because Holly knew that look, because Holly herself had worn it. Sometimes, it didn’t serve to interfere when
a child like that girl was standing strong.
Best not to undermine her when Holly didn’t know what she was going home
to. A household of skinny sisters and a
hypercritical mother? A classroom with a
teacher who didn’t like fat kids because she’d been one? Or…nothing—a foster home or a shelter where
she was either the whipping girl or the invisible child? Sometimes, it was better just to pass by with
a knowing glance, a shared moment of recognition, older to younger.
On another day, Holly
might have let the child handle her own business, but there was something about
that particular little girl on that day protecting that runt of a husky pup
from those boys. And it was simple enough
for Holly, now that she was older, an adult.
Now that her life with the Agency had taken on an element of mystery,
secrecy, intrigue, danger that the average person knew nothing about. Mundane confrontations like this seemed so
much less intimidating.
Arms crossed, the
expression on her full face mirroring that of the girl’s, Holly stood about
three feet from the cluster of children and waited for them to notice her. When they did, one of the boys even had the
nerve to snicker and say, “What? She
your kid? You look like her.”
Holly tilted her head
and kept staring, until the boys’ gazes started shifting anxiously back and
forth between hers and the girl’s, back and forth, hers and the girl’s. It creeped them out after about thirty
seconds. “Fuck this,” the same smart ass
said before all three boys shuffled away, casting ugly looks over their
shoulders at Holly.
Advancing a few steps
to stand next to the little girl, both the older and younger still watching the
bullies skulking through the parking lot toward the street, Holly said, “Nice
dog.”
“Yeah,” the girl
sighed in a relieved breath, finally looking down to pet the pup. “Wish I could keep him.”
“He’s not yours?”
The girl shook her
head, one hand fighting all that long brown hair still whipping into her
eyes. “No, it was just sitting on the
sidewalk all cold, and those boys were kicking at it and talking about doing
some…some really mean stuff to it.”
Holly nodded. “Pretty lucky you stepped up.”
The child squinted
briefly, doubtfully up at Holly. “Not
smart, though. They’ll remember this
when they see me at school.”
Holly nodded
again. “But sometimes you just have
to. Don’t give them anything to grab
onto, and they’ll give up after a few days.”
That statement hung
between the girl and the woman, until the child shifted abruptly to bundle the
pup into Holly’s arms. “I gotta go.”
Holly sucked in a
sudden breath and opened her mouth to protest, but the little husky squirmed
hard, trying to dig its way up under her jacket. By the time she had calmed the pup, made sure
it wasn’t going to tumble right out of her arms, the child was yards away
walking head down into the wind. The
sight churned uneasy feelings in the bottom of Holly’s stomach. In part, it was because of how much the girl
really did resemble her, in size, in attitude, and in that somberness behind
her eyes that no kid should have had.
And in part, it was in recollection of the snide comment from the mouthy
boy, when he had asked if Holly was the girl’s mother.
She wasn’t. Holly wasn’t anyone’s mother, no one’s sister
or niece, not even a daughter anymore or so much as a cousin. And certainly not a wife or girlfriend, which
made Holly snicker just briefly, without real humor. Many aspects of her life had changed
drastically over the previous few months—since the Agency had taken her on,
since the attack that had prompted the covert government team to contact her in
the first place—but the overall desirability of Rubenesque women to the average
American male was not one of those miraculous alterations.
At this rate, without
so much as a date in a year and a half, there weren’t going to be any little
Holly’s in her future. That made the new
job, her career with the Agency, that much more important. It got her up in the morning, gave her
something to be passionate about, a sense of self-worth even if no one outside
the office knew how smart and resourceful and persistent she could be. At least someone needed her, had a place for
her.
“You got a dog? That’s unexpected. And extremely cool.”
That voice. That deep, muted rumble of a voice like a
distant storm—a huge crashing torrent rolling toward her, but from so far off
it was only a low grumble, a promise of thunder. Few things in the world made Holly feel so
much dread and excitement at the same time.
Rainstorms and Dustin Berg. And
one was right behind her.
The man was Holly’s
neighbor, having moved into the townhouse next to hers about two months after
the Agency had relocated her for her own safety. The man was her gadfly, always just behind
her back or just beyond her peripheral vision right about the time she was
doing something embarrassing, like trying to jog her size sixteen body around
the local park trail when she hoped it would be deserted, or like trying to
wrestle a puppy out from under her coat while its paw was hooked in between her
blouse buttons and flashing her bra. The
man was five-feet-ten-inches of lean runner’s muscle and slow drawl, vaguely southern-sounding,
military around the edges. The man was,
well, her fantasy lover in the flesh, the unobtainable hunk she dreamed about
on very good nights. And only God knew
why he bothered to talk to Holly so much, except that maybe he was just that
nice a guy. An absolutely cut, rock-jawed, deep-voiced, boy-next-door
grown up nice guy. She rolled her eyes
at herself.
Holly took in a
breath and swallowed hard before pivoting to face her neighbor. She found him huddled down into his black
leather coat, collar turned up against those perfect, hard-angled
cheekbones. Coffee brown eyes squinted
against the wind, which had lightly chaffed and pinkened his broad, soft smile. That and the sight of his thick brown hair,
cut short along his neck and over his ears but left in sensually mussed ruffles
along his crown, took her breath away.
Her body flashed hot from her groin to her knees.
“Hey, Dustin,” she
said, careful to sound unaffected by her surprise or his glaring good looks or
the fact that she could smell the earthy, woody scent of him even from two feet
away in a strong gust.
When Dustin reached
toward her to pet the puppy, Holly almost gasped. Her heart definitely stopped for the full
second it took her to realize he wasn’t reaching for her. Of course he wasn’t. And yet….
And yet his steady
brown eyes were trained on Holly, not the pup, as he looked up from under the
thick fringe of his eyelashes, head tilted down against the flurry. “He’s adorable. Huskies, they’re kind of wolfish. That and the eyes, that makes some people
nervous.” The hiss of the wind made him
lean in just a little bit to be heard, and that meant his body was sheltering
hers, so near, so right. She trembled in
the cold. Yeah, the cold. “That doesn’t make you nervous, Holly? That wolfishness? The eyes?”
His or yours, she wanted to
ask. Instead, expertly covering her
physical reactions to Dustin’s nearness, she shrugged. “Not really.
I’ve always thought their eyes were beautiful, sort of otherworldly,
like they’d seen things only they could see.”
Holly bit her lower
lip to shut herself up when she saw Dustin react to her overly fanciful ideas
with a strangely approving smile, ringed with the subtle shadow of stubble he
left around his mouth and along the hard, strong line of his jaw. Those kinds of piercing looks from him made
her heart skip and then flutter erratically, every time. They even made her think that he was flirting
with her now and then.
The idea that he
might ever have guessed Holly had a crush on him mortified her, because she
knew that wasn’t a big girl’s place, drooling over men as panty-wetting sexy as
Dustin Berg. So long as she never let
on, so long as she came off as though she had zero libido, she could avoid the
agonizing awkwardness of Dustin realizing she was attracted to him. Some men could be downright cruel when a
curvy girl presumed to flirt or even entertain a secret crush. Not Dustin, she suspected, but still….
Dustin, as though
sensing Holly’s building skittishness, straightened over her. God, those shoulders, even under the layer of
heavy black leather. He maintained a powerful,
looming presence still but not quite so close.
“Things only they could see,” he repeated, pausing. “That’s a good way to put it. Maybe you should bring him next time you run
in the park. We could—.”
“I’m not keeping
him,” Holly blurted, panicked at the thought of Dustin seeing her in workout
clothes. Whenever she ran into him on
the trails, she always slowed down to a smooth walk and pretended to check her
pulse. No jiggling in front of Dustin Berg, please. It was a thought that almost made Holly laugh
out loud at herself. “I mean, he’s not
my dog. He’s a stray, just huddled on
the sidewalk.”
“You could keep him,
then. Copper Ridge is really good with
their pet policy. But you don’t want
to?” Dustin was still petting the
scruffy rump of the pup, who had finally settled with his head nestled up under
Holly’s full breasts. She tried not to
be offended by the dog’s utilitarian attitude to something as personal as her
chest or to let Dustin’s vaguely disappointed tone make her feel guilty.
“I work,” she
said. “A lot. There’s no one at home.”
There wouldn’t have
been anyone to take care of a pet if something happened to Holly, something
like the attack a few months back, if it had been worse. Just like there hadn’t been anyone for Holly
when her mother had died ten years before.
No one to know Mom wasn’t where she was supposed to be, except a
daughter who didn’t want to call for help after she’d seen ambulances take her
grandparents away and never bring them back, after police had taken Dad away
and never brought him back, either. The
idea of the runty little husky waiting by the door and no one ever coming home
to him, because there wasn’t anyone but Holly and no one to know, made her
queasy in the way only the smell of musty cardboard and bad memories could.
“So what are you
going to do with him?” Dustin asked, rousing Holly from her private
thoughts. She started to answer, but she
could only shrug, at a loss. “Here,” he
said, gathering the dog into his arms after a brief struggle with four gangly
legs and a stiff tail. “I’ve got a
friend who works in a vet’s office. She
can check to see if he’s got a chip. If
not, well, they get nothing but animal lovers in their offices all day. Someone will want him.”
Holly stiffened like
the pup, robbed of his warm nook. “It’s
not that I don’t…. It’s just….” Then, little by little, her shoulders sagged
back down. “There’s no one at home.”
“Yeah,” Dustin
breathed low, peering appraisingly at Holly, as though he suspected there was
more context at work in the statement than was immediately apparent. “Well, if you change your mind, I’m sure she
can keep him around at the office for at least a couple of days.”
“Yeah, okay,
great. Thank her for me,” Holly
said. Then she pulled her overcoat
tight, despite it being about a half-size too small, and folded her arms and
braved the wind back to her car. Without
buying her groceries. She kept thinking
of that little girl and Dustin’s reaction to Holly not wanting—not letting
herself want—to keep the pup and wondering dismally whether Berg’s “friend” at
the vet’s office was another way of saying girlfriend.
CHAPTER TWO
“Looks like she’s not
inviting us home to dinner anytime soon,” Dustin told the ratty pup in his arms
as they both watched Holly fleeing across the parking lot. “Fine by me,” he added, frowning, not meaning
it half as much as he wished he did.
Had the pack not
assigned him to watch her, Dustin would have stayed as far away from Holly Parker
as humanly and inhumanly possible. She
was too curvy, too luscious, too infuriatingly independent, too much of a
challenge for the wolf inside him. And
she was damn near too much for the tenuous remains of his self-control. She
smelled, for chrissake. Not only
like she was wolfkin but of wild lavender and cedar, like she’d been rolling
naked in it. And the images that went
along with that fucking thought!
Breathe, two, three, four. Berg automatically
defaulted to the meditative breathing technique he’d been practicing the last
few weeks, as the hunger to turn and to hunt and to mate had gotten worse. The wilding
was getting worse, getting closer, claiming a little more of his humanity with
each turn and clawing at him when he refused to shift. Hours of meditating, miles of running, adding
pounds by the dozens to the weights at the gym all just maintained the status
quo, the constant simmer of hunger and the low growl of the wolf just
waiting. Volunteering to work in town,
away from the pack, to scout varg leads and keep an eye on Holly or others like
her, wasn’t helping the way he thought it would. Breathe,
two, three, four.
And no matter how
much he tried, whenever she was anywhere around him, Dustin couldn’t take his
eyes off Holly. Walking, getting into
her car, she held her shoulders back so stiff and straight, as though that was
going to keep those curves of hers from rolling and swaying seductively, temptingly. He sized her up like the predator he was,
more so day by day.
They were playing the
same game, Dustin and Holly, but only he acknowledged it. She really seemed to think that coming off
cool and unimpressed was going to fool him into believing she wasn’t attracted
to him, but her pussy wet itself for him whenever they were together, whenever
she was within reach. He could smell
that, too. And that made the wolf inside
him rise up as wild and rampant as she made his cock. Lucky for Dustin his black leather coat hit
him at the top of his thighs, just low enough.
For his part, Dustin
had tried not to flirt at all at first, then only as much as was necessary to
warm Holly up enough that she’d let him get a little closer to her, to her
life. Now, after eight months of living
two buildings over from her and watching the woman trying to pretend she wasn’t
half as wild or passionate as he knew her to be, the long stares and accidental
caresses were the only pressure valve he had to keep himself from putting her
face-first against a wall with her arms held above her head while he mounted
her for all they were worth.
Dustin growled under
his breath at that thought, his groin throbbing. The husky whined and looked up at him, head
tilted in question. “You wouldn’t
understand. You’re too young. And you’re a dog.”
No, there was no
special telepathic link, canis lupus to familiaris, wolf to dog, and the pup
sure as hell didn’t know English. So the
husky, yawning and then licking his narrow muzzle, ignored the wasted taunt and
Dustin’s frustration.
The were shook his
head and turned toward the supermarket entrance. “I suppose you’re going to get hungry before
morning. Steak for me and kibble for
you. Let’s keep that straight.” Dustin carried the pup with him into the
store. The first clerk to notice started
to say something about animals not being allowed, but a steady stare, a growl
so low and soft it didn’t really consciously register with her, and a quick
wink from Dustin ended the matter. If
only Holly was as easy to manage.
That thought stuck
with Dustin as he finished his shopping and headed back to the townhouses,
north side of town, the end with the money and the parks and all the woodsy
landscaping. It was the next best thing
to actually living in one of the national forests north and east of the city,
where the arid inland valleys of California gave way to the Sierra Nevadas,
condos and abnormally green golf courses disappearing in favor of rich red
earth and loam, trails and remote cabins.
All the photos on
Dustin’s mantle, above the environmentally friendly gas fireplace he never used,
showed him surrounded by giant sequoias or redwoods. Not in that godforsaken Eastville trailer
park at the base of the foothills, but swimming at Shafts Lake with Ron when
Dustin was just fifteen, or hiking with Martin and Tate about twelve years
back, right after he’d turned eighteen and gained full status with the
pack. Not a single picture included his
jailbird brothers or his drunkard redneck daddy. The pack brothers who’d taken him in at
fourteen, those were the only family he cared to acknowledge.
The sound of a
plastic garbage can being turned on its side in the kitchen reminded Dustin he
had a four-legged guest. “Steak for me
and kibble for you,” he repeated as he scooped the willful pup up out of the
pile of trash it had strung across the tile floor. The husky looked unrepentant with the clear
wrap from the steak packaging hanging out of its mouth. “Right, then, you look for something else to
tear up so I don’t feel half as bad about taking you to see Laura tomorrow at
the vet’s. Maybe we’ll even get you
shots.” The pup reared back in Dustin’s
arms and kicked frantically to be set down, as though it understood that
word. “And I’ll get rid of this.” Dustin held up the trash bag and shook it at
the puppy, who retreated a few feet from the noise before forgetting what it
was running from and sitting down to scratch its ear instead.
Out on the front
step, pulling the door closed softly, Dustin paused and listened. A normal human couldn’t have heard it, but he
had, plenty of times. Sometimes he
caught the strains of blues singer Nina Simone or maybe Ella Fitzgerald playing
on the stereo and winding out from a cracked window in Holly’s townhouse. One time she was humming along, a sound so
sweet and wistful that he’d felt it not just in the heat of his groin but as an
ache deep in his chest and the back of his throat. He understood that sound of longing, felt it
every moment he was separated from his pack—but he also knew what was going to
happen if he didn’t keep his distance.
On the way to the big
garbage bin by the mailboxes, Dustin passed Holly’s townhouse. Hers was the one with all the lights on, the
pale blue one. She looked so good, so
soft, when she wore light blue, Dustin thought to himself out of nowhere. Over the hedge and the patio fence, he saw
her sliding glass door was gaping a few inches.
It was cold outside for that, but honestly she burned food a lot. Girl was sexy as hell and could not cook to
save her life. No smell of burned pasta
tonight, though, and no music. Dustin
shook his head at himself realizing he’d been hoping to see her dancing by
herself again in the living room with a glass of wine, but better he
didn’t. That night he had damn near
hopped the patio fence.
Long, silky straight
brown hair, and light cinnamon brown eyes.
Full round breasts and hips to match.
And that goddamn scent of lavender and cedar. Dustin could practically smell her.
No practically about
it, he realized as he came around the corner of Holly’s townhouse and strode
directly into the voluptuous wolfkin.
“Oh, fuck.” Holly’s eyes got big, and she put her hand
over her mouth. For the language and the
trash bag split open on the paved walkway, she murmured, “Sorry.”
“S’okay. You’re kinda cute when you cuss.” It was a struggle for Dustin, groin instantly
straining and burning, not to confess that he just plain liked the way she
sounded when she spoke before she
thought, without filtering, unguarded. He
wanted to hear her say it again while she was underneath him, along with a
lengthy selection of other delectable syllables women only tended to say when
they were about to be overcome by an orgasm.
And then to feel her nails in his back and hear her growl….
Dustin’s carnal
revelry subsided when he recognized the quiver that passed over Holly’s plush lips,
the slight shiver along her shoulders.
She was wearing just a blue, zipper-front track suit, no coat, hair
loose, probably coming back from the bin herself, but it wasn’t the kind of
shudder that came from being cold.
“You okay, lupa?”
She wasn’t looking at
him, head down. “Yeah, I’m just….” Then she raised her face, her bright honey brown
eyes narrowed. “What did you say?”
More than he should
have. “What’s wrong, Holly? Bad day?”
Whatever was really
bothering her, she shrugged it off.
“Long day.”
Long life, her tone
said. “Yeah, I know.” And he did.
Dustin knew all about Holly’s background, from growing up with a father
who thought drinking and armed robbery qualified as vocations, to losing her
grandparents and her mother before she was even a teenager. He knew about the were attack—the varg
attack—almost a year before and that fact that she was very likely working for
an Agency cell, considering the people who had approached her soon after that
bullshit report she’d filed with the police.
No mention at all of the fact that the man who had “mugged” her in that
parking lot on her way home had been a shifter.
But Dustin and pack leaders Ron and Eric had seen the hospital file and
the photographs of the bite wound on her left shoulder. “I know,” he said again, but he couldn’t
convey to her how true it was, how sincere.
Then he bent down to
pick up the tattered trash bag just as Holly leaned down to do the same, and
their hands and cheeks brushed at the same moment. Dustin’s senses filled with…with lavender and
cedar, the memory of hips swaying to “I Want Some Sugar In My Bowl”, a naughty
word like fuck from those bee stung lips, and the anxious tremor along her
flushed skin and ripe curves. Holly and
Dustin both straightened, gazes flared and locked, only he stood up with a step
forward into her. He couldn’t keep the
growl out of his breath, the rumble reverberating gut deep, from the root of
him, his swelling cock. The hair on the
back of his neck stood on end as the wolf in him pushed hard to free itself, to
rise up right through his bristling skin.
Dustin’s shoulders settled and shifted back as his hips strained forward
and his hands clenched into fists, the only thing he could do to keep from
grabbing her, jerking her against him, or throwing her to down onto the grass
and….
She can’t pretend we’re not flirting now, he thought as he angled his face down over hers and took the
luscious pad of her lower lip so slowly, so carefully, but so hungrily between
his teeth. He snarled but didn’t bite;
he held her still and sucked while she trembled against him. The wolf inside him thrilled at her reaction,
at the musk of lust mixed with fear. He
scraped her lower lip gently with the edge of his teeth and sucked again, then
lapped upward with the tip of his tongue to taste her upper lip, sweet with
wine, coppery with the blood coursing beneath her skin. Holly’s eyes sank closed, millimeter by
millimeter, and she held her breath one full heartbeat, two, three. He distinctly heard each one, felt them in
the most minute pulsing of her blood.
Dustin lost track of the beats when his own throbbing pulse began
pounding in his head, as she sighed into his mouth and went pliant and
submissive against him.
It was the worst
thing Holly could have done, like she’d rolled over and offered her belly—or her
sweet, vulnerable pussy. Their very first
kiss was Dustin forcing her submission, biting his little lupa, and she didn’t
even understand what was happening, so he couldn’t…. Fuck, he couldn’t do what his body wanted to
do and strip her bare and put her on all fours, couldn’t work himself wildly,
brutally into her tight core from behind while she bucked and bounced against
him and whined at the burn and the stretch and the need between her legs. If she submitted to him fully, like that, she
had to know what she was doing and what it meant.
A split second before
he reached his limit, before he’d gone so far he could only give in to the urge
to drive his tongue into her mouth and his cock into her sex, Dustin stepped
back from Holly. He steadied them both
with one hand on her shoulder, holding himself back from her by pushing her
away, the other hand wiping his mouth.
She probably thought he was wiping away the wetness of her lips against
his, but it was really to hide the fact that he was outright salivating at the
idea of taking her.
“Holly, I’m
sorry.” Behind his hand, Dustin was
slurring his words, canines elongating just enough for him to feel them and
know the wolf was coming if he didn’t get the hell out of there. “I just—.”
“No, no, it’s okay,”
Holly said in a breathy rush, not looking at him. “Stuff happens. It doesn’t mean anything.” Then she started around Dustin on her way
back into her townhouse, her steps hurried, gestures stiff and tight. “I mean, you probably have a girlfriend who
wouldn’t be happy about that. Enough
said. We can just forget it happened.”
She didn’t even look
back. Goddamnit. He could guess all the things she was
thinking, and he couldn’t stop her to explain, not unless he wanted to have a
lot more to be sorry for.
Dustin turned his
face toward a renewed gust of wind, up toward the nearly whole disk of the
glowing moon. He gulped air and let the
chill on his skin and in his lungs beat back the prickle of fur and the pain of
shifting tissue and bone. With the
wilding progression so far advanced, Dustin could have turned in seconds, but
it took two full minutes and a forced march across the complex parking lot to
calm himself enough to say he was even mostly human again.
And all the while,
every single second, the wolf in him gnawed at his insides. It demanded he turn, feed, mate with a
ravening hunger and savagery. It demanded he mate, but surely it meant
fuck, not mate. Not mate.
It occurred to Dustin
only then that he’d never stopped to wonder what the difference would feel
like, between finding a woman who hardened his cock and one that called to his
wolf in a way no other did. He had
always just assumed he would never actually mate, as female Odin’s Wolves were
rare, but hadn’t he heard Ron talk awhile back about a Fenris Wolf who’d paired
with a wolfkin who had never even turned and another shifter who had somehow
bonded with a full on human?
Dustin did remember
one particular pack teaching quite clearly: one of the few things capable of
arresting the wilding progression that eventually obliterated the human in a
werewolf was finding a true mate.
-End Excerpt-
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