I shook my head and met her gaze. “No, Mom, you’ve arrived during the heat,” I let out, straining the words from my throat instead of the moan I wanted to release. She gasped and snatched her hand back, her eyes going wide as she looked at me and then the alphas with a blush. “Oh.” She patted her chest. “I didn’t…I didn’t realize,” she said, flustered. She stood, trying to put herself together to leave. “No, stay. Please? Father can do nothing to you here, just let me get through this and then I’m all yours,” I pleaded. She looked bewildered as she stared before a chuckle broke through her lips. “Well. I must say I never thought being with the wolves would lead you to beg me to wait while you have s*x with them.” She chuckled, and I laughed too, the awkwardness falling away as

