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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mess again either. I imagined it might be worse for him. I tried to think what it would be like if our roles were

didn’t need the dress. I’d find another way.

as a wolf.

I said. “You

repair but he still put it on and did up as many buttons as he

grip on my hands, some of his clothes … suffered

wolf form. Fortunately, his phone had not been damaged in our night of wild passion and he used it now

I thought I might have to shift then, so the

after you’ve changed,” Nicholas said, within

wasn’t in wolf–form, I likely

inside. Elva, blessedly, wasn’t here. The room was empty. They must

later,”

looked a mess, but Nicholas still

to go,” he

I

it

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his belt loops and kiss him senseless. But I

I eventually

exited the room. I didn’t move until

mildly disappointed when he didn’t.

into the closet, grabbed some fresh clothes, and then went into the bathroom to shower and change. I cranked the shower as hot as it could and

decide to make love outside, we needed to remember to bring a blanket or something.

go,

trash. They were torn and grass- stained beyond repair. There really

out of the bathroom. Elva, the nanny, Charlotte, and Mark were all standing in the room now. They

“Mommy?” she asked.

before everything happened. I remembered the pain on that balcony after being stabbed, when I had wished

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

see my baby girl

her head more and more, inquisitive… a

seem…” her

her.

to her chin. “Mommy, do

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