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.

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

and ninety percent give up at this point. It is due to the fact that the body begins to overheat, and the need for physical contact

wolf in her whines

the nipples is enough to cause tremors of desire, or actual pain from

as forced

The wolf completely takes over. They hunt, bite, rut, claim—and would

loss of control, full-body tremors, near-constant arousal, and hallucinations

or worse, die from the

and final stage is the Crash,

stage when mating is completed and the fever melts into euphoric calm. At this point, the wolves are settled,

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

no known danger level with this, as no wolf has been recorded to have reached this point without completing

fulfilled, the fever may

You only crawl through it, clawing your sanity back inch by inch—and pray you don’t fuck around

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safe to conclude that Adele was in the fourth stage. The only reason she hadn’t gone feral was the Suppressor pills she’d taken—they had dampened her connection to her wolf, giving

drenched in sweat, burning from the inside out, her hair clinging to her flushed face. She gripped the sheets in clenched fists, grinding her teeth as if in

The dreaming began...

herself wading through darkness so thick she couldn’t even see her own hands. She didn’t know why, but the hairs on her arms

she go? There was nothing but

all along, the

circus stage in pale gold. The rest of the sagging circus tent remained