Defy The Alpha(s)

Chapter 491: Runaway Mate

LYCANTHROPIC MEDICAL ARCHIVES, VOL. III

"Bondfire Fever: Understanding and Surviving the Mating Fever"

Filed under: Mating Bonds, Instinctual Disorders, Pack Reproductive Health

—Classified Text Reserved for Advanced Healers and Pack Medics Only—

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There were stages to the mating fever—or the Bondfire as some called it—the best cruel gift from the goddess.

The first was the Spark, also referred to as the initial trigger. It begins the moment fated mates come into proximity or lock eyes.

Then their heart races, and the scent of the other becomes intoxicating. Mates could literally feel each other like a low hum across their skin, as though their nerves were reaching out.

This particular stage is quite seductive but easy to ignore until it isn’t anymore.

The second stage becomes the Pull, or heightened craving. It is the point where the fever begins to settle beneath your skin, and every thought becomes obsessive.

At this point, there’s the deep, relentless throb between your thighs. It’s as if your body is starving for one specific touch—and not just any—but your mate’s. Nothing else will do.

This is usually followed by the Scent Madness, where everything smells like him even when he’s clearly not around. Then there’s the trembling hands, hypersensitivity, and the possessive instinct that starts to form.

Many people fold at the second stage. It is resistible with discipline, but difficult if emotionally vulnerable.

person. Hence, some might experience the first and second stages instantly,

Burn, or Physical Onset, and ninety percent give up at this point. It is due to the fact

longer just attraction but raging need. The wolf in her whines for release,

the nipples is enough to cause tremors of desire, or actual pain from resisting. Then fever cramps in the gut or between the legs, involuntary slickness, mental fog, and enhanced

is high at this stage, as forced separation may cause emotional outbursts or

as the Frenzy, or Instinct Override. It is the peak of the Bondfire when reason becomes non-existent. The wolf completely takes over. They hunt, bite, rut, claim—and would

associated with this stage are possessive mania, loss of control, full-body tremors, near-constant

worse, die from the stress if rejected for too long. No one has been known

stage

no one escapes the Frenzy stage, this is considered the successful stage when mating is completed and the fever melts into euphoric calm. At this point, the wolves are settled, and the bond

symptoms of this stage are weakness, soreness, confusion, and intense

as no wolf has been recorded to have reached this point

in some rare cases where the bond is partially activated but not fulfilled, the fever may

of a wolf riding out a mating fever. You don’t. You only crawl through it, clawing your sanity back

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only reason she hadn’t gone feral was the Suppressor pills she’d taken—they had dampened her connection to her wolf, giving her more control. But that

inside out, her hair clinging to her flushed face. She gripped the sheets in clenched fists, grinding her teeth as if in pain even in

The dreaming began...

her own hands. She didn’t know why, but the hairs on her arms stood on edge, and her instincts

could she go? There

been in control of this play all along, the light suddenly came alive and Adele winced, shielding

found herself standing beneath a single beam of golden light, the spotlight illuminating the round circus stage in pale gold. The rest of the sagging circus tent remained drowned in darkness. Not just that, the wooden bleachers stretched outward into the darkness, the audience