The Alpha’s Desire 3(45)

 

 

 

“The Royal werewolves are coming in from the other side of the district. We didn’t want to drive too many cars even this close,” Nira assured me, though it did nothing for my increasingly rapid breathing. I heard the clicks of car doors being opened and closed with care, so as not to draw any premature attention our way.

 

 

 

From this point on, as we got out of our cars, there was a flurry of hushed activity as groups formed and final plans were hammered out. While there was not time for introductions to this new set of Royal wolves, I was assigned to a hulking man who came up beside me. While his grin was welcoming, his greeting brief but warm, I’d never get used to them all standing around naked.

 

 

 

They’d traveled the last way as wolves, and then transformed back as they met up with us. That left no time for clothes again. For them all, though, it just seemed to be a way of life. I figured that if I got the chance to make that dream we’d shared come true, to run through the woods together as wolves, side by side, Lex and I, that being naked afterward would probably be the least of my concerns. Guess I’d have to adapt, eventually. If I ever became a wolf myself, I’d have a lot of mind-work to do. But, I had to put that all out of my mind. I was minutes away from saving Lex, and hopefully Vivian and Riker, too, before I could get to a point of making that dream a reality. Small steady steps now. Saving. Meeting. Learning. Wolfing. In that order. Still, all I really needed was the first.

 

 

 

As we fell into groups, set ourselves upon our directions to approach the building and then the stairs, I just stared at the flickering of light several floors above me. This was where we would fight the true werewolves. This was where, in a short amount of time, I hoped, I would get my Lex back. I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I would do so or die trying.