No wolves are out raiding after a Mating Moon. All male wolves are too exhausted to do anything other than try and recuperate. I knew it well. I’d heard them talk about it many times over the years.
Despite the beauty of these three men, their many kindnesses and how hard they'd tried. I feared another Mating Moon. Feared what might happen to me now as a mated female.
What if someone wanted to hurt me to get to them. I knew how none of this worked. But I hurt. And I was somehow afraid that went they awoke. All that had occurred the night before would only continue.
It's my one chance.
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Wearing nothing but Racer's oversized shirt and covered in sex and their fluids, I fled barefoot from my hut. Straight blonde hair a banner chasing me in the early morning light as I streaked through the woods.
Faster than I'd ever run to get to the walls. As I ran, I saw light glinting over the wall and peering through the leaves in the tree canopy above me.