STORY EXCERPT

“I’m going to shift later today or maybe tonight after I’ve had a chance to spend time with you as a man. After I shift, I won’t be a man again for a long time.”

“And your mother and father and the doctor in Wolf Creek think this is normal.” Now there was disbelief laced with disgust in her voice. But it was better that she felt this way. It was better, even if she ended up hating him, than if she knew the real truth of what the doctor in Wolf Creek had told him.

“It’s not normal, but it does happen.” He was telling her a white lie. He reached to her face and wiped a tear away. “I’m so sorry, Morgan. Now that it’s happened to me, I hate myself. I’ve let you down big time. I’m a lousy boyfriend.”

“Well, isn’t there anything you can do?”

He shook his head, feeling helpless and disgusted with himself. “Just give in to the wolf. Let it pass. In time it will be over, and I’ll be back…” This was another lie. He didn’t know if he ever would be back as a man again.

“How long?”

Nathan paused. He couldn’t answer her or, more accurately, did not want to answer her. “I don’t know.”

“A week? A month?” she probed him.

“No.” He let go of her and walked ahead on the path. There was snow under his boots, and it crunched loudly and broke the eerie silence between them. “It could be years…”

He turned to watch her throw her hands in the air. “Oh God, Nathan!” she cried. “So this is it? You and me are finished?”

“No, we’re not!” He was at her side in a second and had her back in his arms. She struggled to get free, but again his strength won out, and he held her to him until she calmed down. “I don’t want to lose you, Morgan. And I am terrified that I will.”

“I don’t think I can wait for you for years, Nathan. I’m only twenty-four years old. I want to have a normal life like everyone else.”

He gripped her by the arms and forced her to look up into his eyes, holding her so tight he was afraid he hurt her. “My friends back in Chicago, my family, the folks I know in Wolf Creek—fuck them! Fuck them all! You’re all I have in this world, Morgan. You are my only link to humanity. If I lose you, I don’t think I’ll ever be back. I won’t have any reason to come back.”

“Then don’t leave me!” she shouted and clutched onto him and pulled him down to her with all her might. “Stay with me and let me get you some help for whatever it is that is wrong with you. All I want to do is help you.”

“And I’m asking for your help.” Nathan refused to plead with her. But he loved her, and the plea in his voice came through loud and clear anyway. “I’m asking you to stick by me during this time. When I come back to you, I promise to never leave you again. At that time, this will all be behind us, and we can have the kind of life we always talked about. The kind of life we had started to build out here together. The two of us get each other. I couldn’t ask this of anyone else but you.”

He saw confusion cloud her eyes. There was a lot of pain inside her, and he hated himself because he was the one to bring it to her. Would it have been better for her if she had never met him? But it was too late for these doubts now.

“Where will you be?” she asked him.

“Right here in this forest as a wolf.”

“Where will I go?”

“You’ll stay here in our home.”

“I don’t think I can do that for you, Nathan.” More tears were falling down her cheeks.

“Do you still love me?”

“How can you even ask me that now?” she shouted at him. “You know I’ve always loved you. You’ve been my one weakness.” She tried to push away from him again, but he held her tight and refused to let her go.

“I want you to stay here and live in our house. Everything I’ve got is yours while I’m gone.”

She shook her head, not wanting to hear any of it. “I can’t just stay out here by myself for years and wait for you. I’m not that strong. I’ll be dead or a lunatic by the time you come back.”

“I don’t want you to be alone. I want you to take other mates. There are a lot of shifter males in Wolf Creek, Morgan. Do it for yourself, and do it for me. I’d like to see another man make you happy when I cannot. That would give me satisfaction also.”

ADULT EXCERPT

“Have you ever been tied up during sex?”

She looked at him like he had lost his mind. He kissed her once for reassurance.

“You want to tie me up tonight?” She was clearly uncertain about this request.

He held her in his arms and kissed down her neck. When he whispered in her ear, he knew what he told her sounded dangerous and forbidden.

“I want to tie you to this table and fuck you hard and long. I want to ride you like I never have before.”

A smile turned the corners of his mouth as he watched her gulp at his words.

“You’re really serious, aren’t you?”

“Baby, I’ve never been more serious in my life.”

He reached down and brought her shirt up over her head. Compliantly, she raised her arms and let him remove it from her. When he bent to take each of her nipples in his mouth in turn, she cried out. He could hear her heart pounding in her chest.

He knelt before her on the floor, lowered the zipper of her jeans, and hooked his thumbs under the waist, lowering them down her legs. Every inch of the gorgeous flesh of her legs was slowly exposed to him. He planted kisses over the bare skin and licked it with his tongue. To feel her shiver at his touch gave him pure gratification.

But there was so much more to come.

“How are you going to tie me?” She stood before him in a thong. Hunter could barely restrain himself at the sight of her. She was so precious.

He pulled down the thong and off her legs. “With this.” He held the thong in front of her. “Turn around and put your hands on the table.”

She hesitated, but gave him a smile. “What’s gotten into you, Hunter?”

“You.” He gave her another kiss and ran his hands the length of her naked body. This forced another shiver from her.

“All right,” she conceded. “I trust you.”

She turned around. Her beautiful backside was presented to him. His cock surged forward in his pants with a hot, desperate life of its own.

“Stretch out your arms,” he ordered her.

She did as he asked and was spread-eagled across her own worktable.

He used her thong to tie her right wrist to the rail beneath the worktable. He made the knot loose for her comfort, but tight enough to where she could not get away.

Then he picked up her bra and went to tie her left wrist with it. Again he left a lot of room in the knot for her circulation, but made sure it was secure before he finished.

“How do you feel?” he asked her, stepping back to admire the view.

“I feel foolish like this, and I’m afraid I look even worse.”

“You look like the most beautiful vision I have ever seen.” He gave her butt cheek a light pat.

“Well I’m glad one of us is enjoying it.” She gave a little laugh.

“Just wait. You’re going to enjoy this, too.”

“I hope you’re right.”

“Have I ever disappointed you before?”

She thought about it a second. “No, you haven’t. Don’t let this be the first time.”

As Hunter spoke with Morgan, he was undressing. She had gone back on the Pill, and they no longer had need for a condom.

“How are those?” he asked her. “Test them and see how far they let you move.”

She pulled back from the table but couldn’t even rise up six inches before her makeshift bonds held her back.

“You’ve got me,” she told him. “I can’t move.”

“Good.”

He fisted his swollen cock a few times and stepped up behind her. Inserting first one and then two fingers inside her pussy, he tested the waters, wanting to make sure she had lubricated for him.

She was still a little dry. Probably this was because she was apprehensive at trying the new position. He rolled his fingers around inside her and searched until he found her spot and made her cry out. All the while, his thumb massaged her clit and made it swell.

Soon her womanly scent flowing from between her legs had filled the small room, and she was wet and ready for him.

He moved the hair off the back of her neck and kissed her there. He bent over to whisper in her ear seductively.

“I’m going to take you hard tonight.”

She was moaning because he still had a finger inside her pussy, exploring her. “Okay,” she whimpered against his touch.

“Are you ready for me?” His thumb kept working her clit. “Or I could just keep doing what I’m doing?”

She looked back over her shoulder at him. He gave her a smile that was all teeth and promise.

“I can’t take that anymore. I need you in me now.”

“As you wish, my lady.”

Hunter took his cock in his hand and pressed it against her moist pussy lips.