Pack Secrets(18)

She giggled to herself, wanting to see if he tasted as good as he smelled. Wait, no I don’t, bad kitty. Well, she did, but she wasn’t about to admit she lusted after him. He probably already knew because her scent didn’t lie. He was keeping a good distance from her, maybe he didn’t notice.



Lost in thought, Justin was hit with the scent of arousal coming off Dee. He looked up expecting to find her with someone else. Looking around he only saw her, wait…is she sniffing my shirt? What did that mean? He waited to see what she’d do.

Her voice was soft, hesitant. “My name is Dee Marie Malone and I’m originally from the wilds of Alaska. We had no pack, but knew all of the surrounding animals and shifters. My parents had me and then tried to have more kids, but my brother and sister died at birth. They were twins and mom never could face having anymore after that. After I got pregnant, I followed his father to this pack, we never formally mated and shortly after we moved here I realized he wasn’t what I wanted. We split and I took Carter.” She turned to him with a shimmer of tears in her eyes, “Is that enough for now? I don’t like to share much about myself, I’ve made some really bad choices in life and I’m trying to be a better person.”

Taken aback at her honesty, he approached slowly, ensuring that she knew he wasn’t pushing. He was a foot away from her holding his arms out in welcome when she came into his arms and buried her face in his chest. He felt her breath against his chest and actually got chills.

“Why do you smell so good?”

“You smell good to me too.”

She pulled her head back and looked into his eyes. “You didn’t answer my question.”

Looking into her amber eyes that appeared to be more green than brown toned he fell a little bit more in love with her. “Do you want the truth?”

She gave the slightest nod.

“You have to promise not to freak out, or run away, or push me away.”

Another nod.

She buried her face back in his chest as if she knew what was coming. His head moved as he breathed deeply of her scent, wanting to confirm what he already knew. “I think we’re fated.”

Her breath hitched against his chest and her breathing increased. He thought she might be crying when he felt something wet on his chest. He pulled her head back, gazing into her eyes, her dry eyes. Her tongue peeked from between her lips as she licked her lips and looked at him with wonder. “Oh.”

Attempting to hold back the shiver of excitement, he looked down at his chest that had a line of wetness where she’d licked him. His small disk shaped nipples were pebbled and tingling in anticipation of his mate’s attention. He watched her sway on her feet towards him as they both drew closer, closer, closer.

Dee’s stomach growled and, they froze, their lips only an inch apart.





Chapter 6


Why now? She was about to experience the best kiss of her life and then, wham, she was swept up into Justin’s arms as he walked them to alpha house. “I can walk. I’m just hungry, I haven’t shifted in years.”

He stumbled. “Years? What the heck, Dee, you’re lucky you haven’t gone crazy. I doubt my wolf would have allowed me to wait that long.”

She wrapped her arms around his neck as he walked them both towards pack house. “Can we stay on topic? A canine and feline can’t be mates. Why do you think we’re mates?”

“I haven’t been able to get your scent out of my mind. I can’t stop thinking about you. I haven’t been able to orgasm in the last weeks because your scent wasn’t near. I almost died healing your son just to make you and Carter happy. Does that sound like a simple courting? Plus, why can’t a feline and canine mate? My friend, Dante, who’s a wolf shifter, mated a bear. If a canine and ursine can mate why can’t we?”

He sounded so sure. She wished she trusted herself and had half the confidence he did. “How will we know?”

She watched as he licked his lips and smiled down at her. “I’m pretty sure by your scent alone. Although I can’t be sure until I taste you. You’ve already tasted me. Do you think you could live without me?”

Searching deep within herself she wondered. “I honestly don’t know.”

He wobbled on his feet and set her down on a patch of cold green foliage. “Before we go back to alpha house and pick Carter up, I’d like to find out. Would you let me kiss you? I’ve been thinking about it for a while now, but you didn’t seem ready.”

Shaking, she nodded her head, still not sure if she was making the right decision. “Okay.”



Well…should he kiss her or wait for her to lean into him. He hated that he was so unsure. Hell, he was an alpha male. He’d never asserted his alpha tendencies before because there’d never been a reason. He couldn’t rely on her scent because she fought whatever feelings she had, rationalizing them away and denying them in her mind. He waited while watching her inspect him. He felt like a bug under a microscope.