Again, he didn’t wait for a response.
His skin was prickling and his blood was heating and he was finding it difficult to fight the urge to howl.
He walked out of the room into the entryway, down the hall to the backdoor. Tucking his wedding band into his pocket, at the backdoor he leapt to wolf and ran through the snow and into the wood, the only way he could soothe his ravaged thoughts.
Then he ran as wolf for hours in a failed effort to assuage the fear that had settled like a weight in his gut and the ache that tore at his heart.
When that didn’t work and night had fallen, he sat in the snow at the rise at the side of his castle, his eyes on the light that came from the windows of the room he shared with his mate and he howled his inconsolable fury at the moon.
Chapter Eighteen
Dreams
Callum walked as wolf into the room he shared with Sonia.
The fire was ebbing but it still danced light throughout the room.
Her eyes fluttered then opened, she spied him and whispered, “Hello Puppy.”
He sat by the bed watching her.
She grinned at him.
He continued watching her.
“Is my handsome wolf coming tonight?” she asked.
Callum growled, knowing he would be coming and she would be coming too, as hard as he could force her to do so.
Sonia blinked, slowly, dreamily knowing herself that his thoughts would come true.
Her eyes drifted closed but her hand fell out as if reaching toward him.
He moved forward, slid his muzzle along her fingers and in her sleep she smoothed her hand against him lovingly.
Tired of this type of affection and wanting a different kind, Callum turned from her and leapt to man.
As he approached the bed, her eyes fluttered open and focused on him.
Without a word, he slid the covers from her beautiful, na**d body and without hesitation, he covered that body with his own.
He pulled the hides back over them.
“Hi,” she breathed.
Callum stared at her.
God, he loved her.
And he loved the fact that she loved him too.
And he loved the fact that she could express the enormity of that love in one, two letter word.
Therefore, he smiled.
Her arm wrapped around him as her other hand went up to touch his face. Her fingertips in his hair, her thumb glided along his brow then down over this cheekbone then down again along his bottom lip.
She watched her thumb and she did this as if fascinated.