Run: Beginnings (11 page)

              Natalie could only moan in response. It had only been such a short while between them. They had just met, really. And yet, she felt a connection with him that seemed to go beyond time or space. She really
was
his. But equally, he was
hers
. And that knowledge made her pulse race and her breath quicken.

              “Do you hear me?” Eric growled as he rubbed his rough stubbly cheek against hers. He kissed her quickly before pinning her with his stormy eyes. “I love you, Natalie.”

              She was his. And he was hers.

              “I love you, Eric,” Natalie whispered, her heart ringing a clear true note of a glass bell.

              With their souls revealed, they dissolved into each other’s embrace, pushing into each other the love they felt. The bed steamed in their lovemaking. Their rejoicing cries echoed through the house.

***

              “Should I not go to LA right now? I don’t want to leave you alone with these wolves,” Natalie said, snuggled close in Eric’s arms. Both completely sated and exhausted from their lovemaking, they lay quietly in bed, close together.

              Lying in his arms, she couldn’t see his face but she could feel him shake his head. “No,” he said, quietly chuckling. “I’ll be okay. Go see your friends.” He pressed a kiss on her head.

              Natalie sighed happily, enjoying being so close to him again. Yet she couldn’t push away her fears for him. “But what about Marcus? What about what he said and the Running?”

              Eric pulled her closer. “You’re mine, little rabbit. Know that as fact,” he said. “But I don’t want you harmed or fearful every fall when the Running takes place. So we’re going to have to fix that.”

              “How?” she asked, turning her head to meet his stormy gaze.

              Natalie felt the heat of his secure embrace as she locked eyes with his chiseled face. “When you come back, we’ll be going up to see the pack
,
” he said calmly, his gaze steady.
“
I will claim you officially in front of the other wolves of Lowell.”

              Natalie’s heart thudded to a stop. She would be meeting the pack.

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