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I’d bathed and washed my hair before leaving Ketchikan, but tomorrow I’d brave the outdoor shower, as well as maybe taking the skiff across to the other island.

When I settled on the bottom bunk bed, I brought the sleeping bag up to my chin and lay there staring at the wooden frame of the top bunk. I didn’t think I’d be able to fall asleep despite being exhausted.

All I could keep thinking about was the bear outside the cabin and it coming back.

Focusing on that lone window again, I felt my body relax on its own the longer the silence stretched out. Maybe sleep wouldn’t be so elusive tonight.

Drinking that wine wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

6

Wolf

Icould smell her. So sweet. So mine.

I could hear her breathing, even and slow. She was deep in slumber.

And that’s why I went closer, that’s why I broke in.

Although I cared little whether my female knew what I was doing, I didn’t want to frighten her. If she saw me, she would be terrified.

She’d run from me.

And as much as I wanted her to do that, as much as I wanted to chase, pin her to the forest ground, and rut between her thighs like the nasty fucking beast I was, I wanted her running because she knew how much it turned me on and she was desperate to please me.

Breaking the lock on the door was easy, as easy as snapping the bones of a rabbit I intended to eat. Human contraptions were nothing but flimsy tools they thought could keep the nightmares away.

My body was too big and wide to clear the entrance, and I had to twist and shift my shoulders in order to clear it.

The cabin smelled like age and musk, like human males who’d come and gone from this place. I snarled at the thought of my female anywhere near another male. I’d rip their throats out for even thinking of her.

But underneath that old stink was the sweet scent ofher.

I inhaled deeply, feeling desire settle right in my dick, the heavy length hardening. I followed the scent of her and stepped into the small enclosure where she slept soundly. And for long moments I just watched her, my mouth watering for a taste, saliva dripping from my fangs and jaw because she made me starved.

I looked around the small room, noticing a large bag on the floor. I moved toward it, the heavythudof my feet, and the scrape of my claws on the wooden floor loud enough I expected her to wake from it. But my female slept on.

I crouched onto my haunches and curled the tip of a black claw around the small metal hook that kept it sealed, pulling it open to reveal its contents. I reached inside and picked up the first item I touched, a soft piece of fabric that smelled enticingly like my female.

Slowly swiveling my head back toward where she slept, I brought it to my snout and inhaled deeply, the scent of her pussy faint on the cotton.

I felt my cock become fully erect, a bead of seed lining the tip.

When I stood, I still held the piece of fabric, envisioning the material cupping her pussy.

My mouth watered, and I moved closer to her, curling my paw tighter around the material for a second before letting it drop to the ground.

I saw the same metal piece hanging from her covering and reached out to pull it down, like I’d done with the bag.

Thezzzof the two halves of material coming undone had the predator in me growing more anxious. And when I pulled the top piece away from her, it gifted me with the sight of her lush body.

“Mmm,” I growled, not caring how loud I was.

She was covered from ankle to chest, but I could still make out her curvy body as her clothing fitted to all that womanly perfection.

Her thighs were nice and thick, and all I could do was imagine that the female who was mine would need meat on her bones to handle the primal fucking I’d give her. I couldn’t have a mate who was all skin and bones, not with how big and strong I was. I’d break her in half.

Her belly was full and rounded, and her hips wide—so that all I could picture was gripping on to them as I forced her to take my too gigantic cock.