waiting here for me this entire time. I howled, long and low in greeting, sure that my bare ass was as pale as the moon itself after all those hours in the dark. The next time I was out here in the sun I was gonna need to spend some time tanning up butt ass naked. Maybe I could join Roary on his favourite rock – though he’d probably go all Lion over it and wouldn’t let me.
In the distance I caught the sound of my pack howling in reply and a ferocious joy spread through my chest at the thought of re-joining them. But before I could even shift, another howl pierced the night sky from the opposite direction and my heart skipped a damn beat.
I turned towards the sound of it with my pulse thundering and my breath catching. He was here. Waiting for me. And I needed to see him more than anything in the entire world right now.
"Ethan," I breathed, leaping forward and shifting in the blink of an eye, four huge, silver paws hitting the dirt and my claws gouging deep into it.
I howled again, the sound so much better in my Wolf form as I let every beast running in the dome tonight know that Rosalie Oscura was back.
I took off instantly, diving into the trees and racing towards him. I didn't even have to think about where he was, I just knew. I could scent him on the air, taste him on the breeze and every inch of my flesh was aching with the desire to reunite with him as the mate bond drove me his way with an insatiable desire.
I thundered through the pine forest then emerged in a sandy desert before racing on to a snowy tundra. Up ahead, I spotted a river crashing down a long slope and as my feet splashed into it, a solid black Wolf just as big as me emerged from the jungle which began on the other bank.
My nose was full of the pure, masculine scent of him and my heart raced with joy as I spotted this beast of mine, my equal, my mate. This want in me was a feral, desperate thing and it was as undeniable as it was irresistible. He was mine and I was his and there was absolutely no denying it in that moment.
We leapt at each other, colliding and rolling through the shallow water of the river in a tangle of limbs as we yipped and barked like a pair of excitable pups, nuzzling each other and planting wet licks on each other's snouts.
Ethan rolled on top of me and tried to pin me down and I barked a laugh as I fought my way out from beneath him before taking off down the river.
He barked at me as he took chase and I howled at the moon again as I raced on, loving the feeling of my magic replenishing as the wind whipped through my fur and the river water splashed over my legs.
We ran on past rocky hills and a deep, dark lake before rounding the water's edge and racing towards a tall waterfall that stood there.
I dove through the cascading water, skidding into the cave beneath it on wet paws a moment before Ethan leapt in behind me. He growled playfully and the two of us fell into a tussle once more.
I managed to pin him beneath me and he shifted back into his Fae form suddenly, laughter tumbling from his lips as he smiled widely and his muscular body glistened with moisture from the waterfall. I shifted too, falling over him as a girl once more, my flesh instantly heating with need and desire everywhere as it met his.
"I missed you so fucking much," Ethan murmured and there was something pure and potent in those words which had me admitting my own true feelings too.
"I missed you too, Ethan," I breathed and as he leaned up to capture my lips with his, I gave in instantly.
There was no denying this bond between us, this need. It was urgent and hungry and irresistible.
He kissed me slowly, his mouth teasing mine and the taste of something so much purer than any words we'd ever exchanged on his lips. That kiss lit me up from the inside out, made me feel worshipped, adored, wanted, desired. Like I really was his true mate, his one and only, the beginning and end of all he needed and would ever