Alpha Prime: Shiftily Ever After(58)

“I can live with that,” Brandon said cheerfully.

Dakota walked into her house to find Miles, who had put the pail of milk in the fridge.

“By the way, a new busload of shifters arrived this morning,” he told her. She tensed, but he smiled. “Sweet as pie, all of them.”

After the fight between the west and the east, word had spread among shifters across the country that criminals would not be tolerated in the new territory. The human government had given it one last try, sending up

a busload of thugs and killers. Miles, Creel and Brandon and more than a hundred shifters from every pack, clan and pride had met them when they arrived and told them to leave immediately or be death-challenged on the spot. They’d left.

Since then, the territory had been blessedly trouble free. There hadn’t been a death challenge in months.

Dakota leaned against Miles, and he wrapped his arms around her, stroking her rounded belly.

“So, about dinner…”

“You’re cooking?” he said.

“Heavens, no.” She turned around and kissed him, savoring the softness of his lips. “I love you far too much.”