Free Riding the Entire Pack (BBW Werewolf Shifter Steamy Menage Romance) by Willow Wilde Page B

claiming you as my own from afar.”
     
    I thought back to every time I had felt a pair of eyes on me as I wandered along the trail, and realized that I had been right the entire time.
     
    His gaze now lifted as he glanced around the woods, as if warding off some other band of creatures. “But for our continued protection, we will need something from you. You see, I have longed for an heir for many summers…a pup to raise as the prince of this dangerous forest. You are the first human female who has passed this way since I, myself, was much younger…and you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.”
     
    I blushed at the sound of his words. I had never considered myself conventionally attractive, although a boy or two had expressed some interest in me before. I’d even foolishly lost my womanhood to one, although he proved how much of a scoundrel he truly was when he thought that I was with child.
     
    “If you wish for the protection of my pack,” Galleck continued, “you will have to join my pack. You will be mated by all of us, conceiving a powerful small litter of young wolf shifters for my pack. The gestation is much shorter than what is normal for your kind – you will able to leave peacefully in less than a season, should you desire. We can escort you out of the woods and to the nearest settlement from there.”
     
    “And if I wanted to stay?” I asked, wishing to understand my options.
     
    “Then you will be free to, and you will live your life knowing the true wonders of this place, seeing things no other human ever has. The choice will be yours, but a much earlier one faces you now. Do you choose to accept our protection?”
     
    I didn’t see any alternative, so I nodded.
     
    “Good. Leave your things, you won’t need them…and allow me to change back, then climb onto me. I will have to take you away from here before those murderous Vjolknarr return...”
     
    I did as I was told, carefully bundling up the remainder of my things and setting them beside the tree nearest myself as I watched him transform. The very air glimmered around him as his muscles burst forth, the hair atop his head rushed across his body and thickened, and he fell to all fours. Within seconds, he was no longer a handsome, rugged man but the monstrously large wolf that I had seen in the shadows before.
     
    He turned to face me, dropping low to the ground. His eye seemed as if he was carefully speaking to me. Do not be afraid. Quick – onto my back, little one.
     
    I walked to his side, hesitantly placing a hand against his thick fur. It was soft and shaggy to the touch, and I gripped it tightly as I climbed up onto his back. He growled softly, and I ducked low against him.
     
    With that, we were off, whipping into the darkness of the forest, the very air too black for the light to touch.
     
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    I kept my eyes closed and my face pressed into his thick fur for the duration of the journey. He traveled impossibly fast, gliding between the trees and racing across the forest. I couldn’t understand how he saw where he was going, let alone guide us so effortlessly across the forest.
     
    I don’t know how long we were traveling, but there came a point when he started to slow down. The air seemed different now, and I knew I could see clearer, but I kept my face pinned to his fur. I was desperate to not see any of the frightening faces of this damned forest.
     
    “You may climb off now,” I heard a husky voice speak. It wasn’t his, and I slowly peeled my face free from the fur across his back.
     
    We were in the center of a cave with no ceiling, with a thick layer of lush grass beneath us and the sunlight poured down from above. The sun itself was beginning to set for the evening, but I could still see that we were surrounded by close to a dozen large wolves, watching curiously. Among them was the voice that had spoken, another incredibly handsome man in leather leggings. As I climbed free from Garreck’s