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CHAPTER FORTY

ZURI

The next morning, my head rose and fell on Stone’s muscular chest. I fluttered my eyes open and squinted toward the window, where the sunlight flooded into the room, everything suddenly so … quiet.

“How’d you sleep?” Stone mumbled.

I glanced up to see his eyes still closed but a small smile on his face.

“Good, but we should get up to begin training for the day. Sina, Maxine, and Olenna plan to come over today. And I suspect two goddesses will show up to train me too.” I glanced over my shoulder, expecting them to be looming over me.

But the room was empty.

Did that mean that we hadn’t conceived a pup last night? I was sure they’d be all over me if I had. But on the other hand, usually, they were bothering me that I wasn’t trying hard enough to have a pup right here and right now.

A knock sounded at the door. I picked my head up from Stone’s chest and sniffed the air, smelling Sina and Maxine in the hallway.

After covering myself, I hopped out of bed and opened the door a couple of inches. “Yes?”

“Olenna is down at the training field,” Sina said. “Are you ready to train?”

“I’ll be down in a couple of minutes,” I said with a smile.

Once I closed the door, Stone tore the blanket I had covering my body away and tossed it onto the bed. He drew his arms around my stomach from behind and pulled me closer so his nose was buried into the crook of my neck.

“Train hard for me today, mate , and maybe I’ll beg to come inside you again tonight.”

Heat coursed through my body, and I twirled in his hold. “Is that right?”

“If you make me beg for it,” he hummed, pressing his hard cock against my stomach. He tucked some coily hair behind my ear and smirked. “Can my little mate, my goddess, do that for me? Hmm?”

“Maybe …” I giggled.

He chuckled and smacked my ass. “You’d better get out there before I toss you back onto that bed and fuck you until you can’t move.

” He grabbed his shirt from the bed and pulled it onto my body.

“My scent is all over you, sweetheart, as a reminder that no matter how hard you train, you still wear my mark. You’re still my mate to protect. ”

My lips curled into a small smile. I stood on my toes to kiss his lips, then ran out of the room before he kept his word on his promise. Or … before I decided to take him up on it. Because I didn’t trust myself after last night.

Once I made it out of the pack house and to the training field, the girls were … talking to the sister goddesses as if they could see them clearly now. I furrowed my brow and slowed down to a stop.

“You can see them?” I asked the girls.

Stone and the other warriors from his pack couldn’t see the other goddesses, but I had always been able to. What did it mean if Sina, Maxine, and Olenna could see them too? Did they all have powers, some that they weren’t aware of?

“We come to wolves in dreams, but to those who are worthy in the daytime,” Ifa said.

“Worthy?” I asked. “How do you know? How do you choose if someone is worthy?”

Shivani’s lips curled in a small smile, and she glanced at her sister. “Those who are worthy are the ones who hold immense power within themselves, whether physical, emotional, or mental. And …”

“Only females.” Ifa snickered.

“Only females?” I repeated, still confused.

“Because, dear sister,” Ifa said, curling her arm around mine and walking toward the training field, “ you might enjoy all the testosterone from all the alpha males and their warriors around you, but we don’t.”

Shivani waved her hand dismissively. “It gets old after a few thousand years.”

“More like a few hundred years,” Ifa said.

Shivani rolled her eyes. “If you haven’t picked up on it yet, Ifa loves to exaggerate.”

Well, while Stone had had a lot of testosterone last night, he had made me the one in charge. He had let me boss him around, domme him. My cheeks flushed. I was sure that I had done it all wrong, but he’d seemed to love it.

An alpha male like him , begging for me?!

Goddess, I couldn’t wait for it to happen again and again and again tonight.

“Did you train last night?” Sina asked, eyes dropping to my thigh. “You look bruised.”

“Oh”—Ifa giggled—“she trained all right.”

I narrowed my eyes. “Ifa!”

“What?!” she exclaimed. “We keep tabs on you. You’re our sister and still a little baby in our eyes. We gotta make sure that you’re being treated right.” She wiggled her eyebrows. “And, you know, that you’ll give us a pup.”

“Don’t worry,” Shivani said. “We didn’t watch.”

I paused for a moment. “Did we …”

When I didn’t continue my sentence, the sisters looked at each other in confusion. My cheeks reddened because I did not want to say this out loud, and I played with my fingers, gesturing obviously to my stomach.

“I think she’s trying to ask if there is a pup in her belly,” Ifa said to Shivani.

Shivani shrugged. “Not something I can tell you.”

“You’re literally the goddess of pups,” I reasoned.

She smiled and brushed some hair out of my forehead.

“You get to live your life with your mate. You get to discover if you have or don’t have a pup on your own, like all she-wolves do.

Because this will be the only life that you get with him, and you deserve to live it normally and to be happy with him. ”