Chapter 0384

Nicholas and I traded lazy kiss after lazy kiss until our backs ached and the sun crept above the tree line. We’d chased passion all night long, again and again. Despite my continuous begging, Nicholas never took me in the dirt. Though he’d given me pleasure in nearly every other way.

My body was pleasantly sore. I really needed a bath and a nap. Maybe a good meal.

The wild feeling, I supposed, was wearing off somewhat, and reality was returning.

“We should head back,” Nicholas said.

He was naked. I was too. Our clothes definitely went flying sometime in the night. We laughed as we went searching for them now.

“I found your panties,” he said and tossed them to me. I found my bra on a low- hanging tree branch. Nicholas pulled on his pants.

“Do you see my dress?” I asked.

He stopped moving. I went closer to him, and saw what he saw. My dress was a bloody mess, piled in a hump at the bottom of a tree trunk.

“Don’t put that back on,” he said.

“I can’t walk home naked.”

“Go back as a wolf, then.”

“I can’t,” I said. “Everyone thinks I don’t have a wolf. How would I possibly explain?”

“It doesn’t matter. You don’t have to explain. Let them think whatever they want.”

“It’s just a dress,” I said, and took a step toward it.

“Don’t,” Nicholas said and wrapped his arms around my waist. He pulled me back against him. He had on his pants but no shirt yet. My skin pleasantly tingled where our bare skin touched.

“Nick…”

“You almost died, Piper.” His voice was soft as a whisper, barely louder than the wind. “Please do not put that dress on. I can’t see you like that again.”

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might be worse for him. I tried to think what it would be like if our roles were switched: if he had nearly died,

way. Even

as a wolf.

I said.

you,” he said and kissed my cheek. He let me go and found his shirt. It was wrinkled beyond repair but he still put it on and did up as many buttons

grip on my hands, some of his clothes … suffered the wrath of my temporary confinement. Not

following behind in wolf form. Fortunately, his

unseen, and helped guide us back to the guards at my door with minimal effort. I thought I might have to shift then, so the guards could see me and

changed,” Nicholas said, within

wasn’t in wolf–form, I

wasn’t here. The room was empty. They must have all gone down to breakfast. Thank goodness. I didn’t know how I would explain it.

later,”

human form. I must have looked a mess, but

to go,” he said.

I

make it difficult.”

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closer by his belt loops and kiss him senseless. But I also wanted a shower. And clothes

I eventually

the room. I didn’t move until the door latched behind

was only mildly disappointed

bathroom to shower and change. I cranked the shower as hot as it could and only felt

to make love outside, we needed

go,

They were torn and grass-

I stepped out of the bathroom. Elva, the nanny, Charlotte, and Mark were all standing in the

“Mommy?” she asked.

her before everything happened. I remembered the pain on that balcony after being

want to say goodbye anymore. I hoped I wouldn’t

see my baby

her head more and

her little voice

knelt in front of her. “What is it,

to her chin. “Mommy, do you have a wolf now?”

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