Sandy
I couldn’t believe what I’d just done. I’d marked Belle as mine, without her permission, or even telling her that she was my mate. Shit, she’d probably run a mile now. The exact opposite of what I wanted, needed, yearned for.
To make matters worse my beast was forcing a shift, his own need to scent our mate so strong that he fought against me. What with the time difference, the length of the flight, and my excitement at finding our mate, I didn’t have a lot of fuel in the tank left to fight him.
“Can’t you wait?” I yelled at my beast, but I could already feel my skin pulsating warning me the shift was imminent. So I did the only thing I could as Belle glared up at me looking like the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my life and angry as hell. Knowing she was going to be pissed off and hurt at my words.
“I need to run,” I ground out. “My Wolf won’t wait, Belle. I’m sorry but this conversation will have to continue later.”
I heard her curse as I tore my clothes off quickly, barely removing them before my change started.
“Sandy, don’t you dare!” Belle shouted then murmuring. “Damn it.”
My shift was one of the fastest I’d gone through, the sounds of my muscles, sinew, and bones realigning was loud as my beast came to the fore. I was vaguely aware of Belle stripping off, all the while cursing me.
The Wolf within me started to pace the moment the change was finished, watching Belle intently as she underwent her own. The first sight of her beast was glorious, sending my heart soaring, but it was also a surprise.
Most of the Wolves in my own Pack had a resemblance to their human coloring, hair, skin, but Belle’s was grey with a white underbelly, streaks of white running through her bushy tail, and one grey paw.
She was magnificent.
Much smaller than my own beast but she looked sleek and capable of great speed as she pranced about. Her Wolf appeared to be in a much better mood than her human, prancing around, and yipping with excitement.
Shit, this was how I’d wanted to start things. With both of us in our Wolf forms to allow hers to let her know that we were meant for each other. I hadn’t planned on having sex with her until she was aware of that fact. And what did I do the first chance I got?
Had sex with her and then marked her.
Stupid.
“No,” my beast argued. “Ours, needs to know, ours.”
“Aye,” I conceded, knowing that I should still have taken things slower.
Our beasts broke things down to simplistics, the humans, not so much.
Then I tried something that worked within my own Pack when a mate was marked, but not yet fully mated. I tried to make contact.
“Belle, can you hear me?”
I waited, pacing back and forth like the wild animal I was. Silence greeting me for long moments as I watched her prowl around me, keeping just out of reach, when all I wanted was to pounce on her back and make her submit.
Her beautiful beast cocked its head to the side, and I swear she frowned at me. Then, a moment later, I heard her. It was the happiest moment of my entire life, my heart soaring and my Wolf letting everyone know by howling at the sky.
“Sandy, how is this possible?”
Once I’d regained control of my Wolf, I closed in on her, nuzzling the ruff of fur at her neck. “In my Pack we can mind-link with our mate as soon as we mark them.”
“Mate? What?” she asked, confusion clear in those two small words.
I took the bull by the horns, after all, in my eyes she was already mine. All I had to do was convince her. “You’re my mate, Belle, for now and forever.”
“Really?” She shook her head.
“Yes, but for now we need to run.” I nudged her with my massive head before turning and taking off into the woods.
“Wait for me,” she shouted in my head, her sleek beast tearing after me.
On and on I ran, trying to expend the built up energy in my Wolf, not stopping until we reached a stream. She was right at my side as we lapped at the clear spring water.
Perfect. This moment was perfect as our Wolves stood side by side in the wilderness.
Belle’s Wolf was relaxed as she drank, her body so close to mine that our fur melded together. Good. Looked like her beast was taking this far better than the human part but I hoped that it would smooth the way for me when we transformed back.
She, on the other hand, had other ideas as she stepped away and changed.
Her magnificent naked body causing me to shiver with excitement. Her full breasts hung heavy on her chest and I couldn’t wait to run my tongue over them and nip those tight little nipples. Hell, I’d do anything to hear her moan in ecstasy again.
Then her hands landed on her waist, her eyes narrowed as she glared at me.
“Change now, Scotty, we need to talk.”
Uh oh, that did not sound good.