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We pant, breaths mingling in the moonlight, then he bridges the gap between our mouths to kiss me stupid. He tastes like wildness, relief, and the blood of his kill. When we break apart, I slowly bring one of my hands up to caress his face.

“Mine,” I growl softly.

His eyes burn, and his lip raises in a snarl, then he flips us and leans over me to repeat the same. “Mine.”

Now that my hormones are back to normal, my heart swells with a mashup of relief, pride, and happy confusion. Ferris is alive; he didn’t change into a Biter, and somehow, his wolf has emerged. “How?” I ask.

“I don’t know,” he says, voice full of emotion. “But I’m damn glad.”

“Me too, sweetheart.”

He quietly asks, “How long was I out?”

“Altogether, about four days.”

He shakes his head. “Damn, it felt so much longer than that.”

We sit in contented silence, neither of us moving to clean each other’s cum off. If it were up to me, my mates would always smell claimed. However, there are pressing issues at hand. “We need to get back,” I say, pushing some of his hair away from his face as he looks down at me. “There’s a certain omega that will want to see you.”

“Fuck,” he breathes, climbing off me to kneel at my side. “Let’s go. I don’t want her to wake up to us gone.”

“Agreed,” I say, and stand up to help him to do the same. “Think you can shift back into your wolf? It would be a lot faster and less painful on our naked bodies if we jog back as wolves.”

His scent is uncertain, but he agrees to try. With a little coaching from me, he manages to transform into his gorgeous wolf, and I lead him all the way back to the Lunar Mother’s cabin where Raine waits for us on the porch, hands on her hips.

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RAINE

Northern Pacific Territory

All of my anger and fear melts away as Dair’s wolf emerges from the forest with a brown wolf close behind. I don’t need confirmation to know that the wolf is Ferris—I can feel him through the bond that blared to life about an hour ago.

It felt like a brilliant shooting star racing across the thread between our souls. It was so intense, it woke me up. Not only had my bond with Ferris awakened again, but it had strengthened and multiplied.

When I found the bed empty of alphas, I proceeded to panic and search the entire property for them. Then, I got angry. Now, all I feel is overwhelming relief that Ferris is still human . . . Well, maybe not human, but he’s not a Biter, and that’s all that matters to me. I wonder if our bond changed to accommodate his wolf, too.

Before me, he transforms into living, breathing flesh and strides across the dirt, up the porch steps, and pulls me into his naked chest. The minute my cheek hits his skin, I begin to sob.

He reaches down and grabs the back of my thighs, hauling me up into his arms so that I can wrap myself around his body. I bury my face in his neck, rub my cheek along his scruff, and push my nose into his scent gland. He still smells like my mate, which makes me cry harder.

“You’re here,” I choke out. “You’re okay?”

“I’m here,” he agrees, holding me tight. “You didn’t think it would be that easy to get rid of me, did you?”

“You weren’t going anywhere,” I growl, clutching him harder. “There was never a reality in which that was the end of our story, do you hear me?”

Ferris chuckles, adjusting his grip to squeeze my ass. “Yes, omega,” he rasps.

Dair walks up the stairs behind us, sandwiching me in their bodies the way I love so much. “While you healed, our woman protected you with the fierceness of a she-wolf. She even growled at the Lunar Mother.”

“Is that right?” Ferris says, flashing his canines. Oh, he’s even more dangerous looking than before, almost like now that his wolf has been uncaged, he’s right at the surface at all times. In fact, Ferris feels more unrestrained, freer, in every way. He squeezes my ass, hard. “Allow me to remind you of the depths of my devotion, omega.”

Dair’s chest rumbles with a pleased purr. “She deserves nothing less.”

Ferris licks at my lips, then captures them in a passionate kiss. Dair’s hands cup my breasts from behind, tweaking my nipples and massaging the aching flesh through my shirt. I whimper into Ferris’s mouth, so turned on and happy that I can barely stay still.

My alphas’ scents bloom around me, more dominant than ever before, and my pussy slicks, readying me for their cocks. These alphas are exquisite, and somehow, they are mine. I inhale their desire, and a small omega purr rattles my chest when I realize that they smell like each other’s cum. That’s what I was tasting on Ferris’s tongue—Dair’s mouth.