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companionship. She’d made friends with many of her lovers and even allowed them to come inside her when Wulf was nowhere near. They all thought they were getting away with betraying their leader, but Phillipa continued to eat the pieces of root daily.
    Her skin had tanned lightly from the time she spent outdoors and her hair had grown past her waist. Wulf now stared at her with questioning and untrusting eyes since her stomach had continued to stay flat. He was getting suspicious and he was taking her more violently, so she had trouble walking after they mated.
    She’d become the closest to Mattius over the past months, and it was usually he that walked with her down to the pond in the daylight hours. He seemed to truly enjoy making love to her, but there were days when he could tell she was tired and they just lay in the grass and talked.
    He’d woken early this day to come with her on her afternoon journey. The others were still asleep inside the cottage, and they were alone in her favorite spot by the pond.
    “The master knows you’re doing something to keep yourself from getting with child,” Mattius warned her as he kissed the back of her neck. “He knows it’s not his lack, as he’s sired whelps off of others without trouble while waiting for you to grow round.”
    Phillipa turned to face him, her eyes wide with fear. “What does he plan to do to me?”
    “He’s going to lock you in the upstairs room and keep you chained without food and water until your body is cleansed from whatever you’ve been taking.”
    Tears leaked from her eyes and for the first time since Jacob left with her letter to her grandmother, despair filled her soul.
    “What is it, Phillipa? You know you can tell me. I would never betray you.”
    “It’s just that I thought I would be gone from here by now.”
    “You’re the reason Jacob left,” he said on a sigh. “I should have known he would try to help you. He’s never been as hard as the rest of us.”
    Phillipa told him everything, and she wept against his neck as he held her close. He kissed away her tears until she’d calmed and was kissing him back. She straddled his hips and he lay back on the grass, his dark skin a contrast against hers she never tired of. His cock was hard and pulsed beneath her moist pussy, but she didn’t take him in. Not yet.
    She leaned over him so he could take her breasts into his mouth. Liquid heat drenched her pussy at his touch and she closed her eyes at the feelings bombarding her system. The afternoon sun beating down on her shoulders and the soft grass beneath her knees. The water that lapped at the edge of the pond and the wind whispering through the trees.
    She held his cock steady as she impaled herself on him. They both moaned at the ecstasy of the invasion, and she bit her lip as he pushed against the opening of her womb when she finally sat upon him fully. His hands grasped her hips and she began to ride him with nothing but pleasure in mind.
    It wasn’t until Mattius stiffened beneath her, a warm hand clamped over her mouth and a sword pointed at her lover’s throat that she realized something was amiss.
    “Tell me, Mattius. Whose side are you on? Phillipa’s or your master ’ s? Make your choice quickly.”
    Phillipa gasped at the sound of Jacob’s familiar voice, and she turned to see him, but he held her still.
    “Phillipa ’ s,” Mattius said. “Always. What would you have me do?”
    “I’d ask you to do nothing. I’ve led English soldiers through Wulf’s shield and to the cottage.”
    Phillipa gasped and fought to face Jacob, her despair and desperation clear on her face.
    “Phillipa has become close to some of the wolves over the past months,” Mattius said. “She is worried for their safety.”
    “I told the soldiers to kill Wulf and only those who attacked. It’s the best I can do, Phillipa, if you still expect to gain your freedom.”
    She nodded in compliance as the first sounds of battle echoed from up