Chapter 10
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open my mouth to ask but close it again.” You want to go for a run?” she asks, and I nod, wondering “I have seen you looking at the forest every time you have gone out there. You don't have to ask Abbie if you want to go. Just tell me, and I will
let the guards know so they can make sure you're safe. There are bears out there, so remain in the gi perimeter,” she says. I swallowed, looking at the door.
“You won't punish me when I return?” I asked. She looks appalled at my words.
"Honey, why would I punish you?” she chuckles, shaking her head.
“No reason. I just wanted to make sure it was okay. I don't want to get in trouble,” I admit.
"Go for a run, Abbie, and anyone tries to punish you for it. They will deal with the King and me,” Clar “Go on, have fun. I will let the guards on duty know you're out there,” she says. I nodded, yet I refuse excited. Instead, I was still hesitant. Even as I approached the forests edge. Glancing around nervousI if any guards suddenly rushed into the forest to search for me and drag me back, but I saw no one. Stripping my clothes off, I laid them on a nearby fallen tree. Falling onto my hands and knees the dir naked body before it started twisting and morphing as I took shape and body of my were wolf form, Stretching, I sniffed the air. The scent of pine cones and damp soil invigorated
my senses, and my hearing perked at the crickets and tiny insects in the forest. shot off, darting bet After about ten minutes of running, however, I heard the foliage move, and the wind changed direct Twisting, I look for the intruder while scampering backward when a huge
Lycan steps out from be tween the trees. I drop my head before turning it, baring my neck to the bez "Don’t be frightened, Abbie, it is only me?” the voice says, and my ears twitch on top of my head, his furry shoulder. He unzipped it, and still, I couldn't place him, yet I backed up when I saw him open th “l'won“t hurt you,” the Lycan says. Hearing a wrapper, 1 peer at his hand in the backpack before he p “Recognize me now?" he
chuckles, and I bob my head as he opens the packet. He pinches one between his claws and holds it Gannon laughed as my tongue swiped his fingers when I realized what he was doing when my nose He set me on his lap, his claws running through my fur as he brushed it.
“Well, aren't you a little ball of suff,” he laughs, stroking my fur like I was a damn pet, yet his claws fe with him near. Although, when he rubbed my ears, I started
purring like a damn cat and tried to scramble off his lap, only for him to drag me back and nip at my "Stop; I don't care if you purr. I can purr too,” he laughs before purring, the noise rumbling from his « Gannon laughs, and I lick his chin, mortified at what I did. I froze, which only made him laugh harder. “It's fine, Abbie; she—
wolves are attracted to dominant males; I expect you to act accordingly,” he laughs. “It doesn't bothe my face and my eyeball, making my lashes stick to gether, and I had to blink to un-stick them.
“See, it doesn't bother me,” he says. My nose picks up the delicious scent
of the clouds when I lay my head across his lap, my nose sniffing the air before my face was in his ba My teeth pull the candy bag out, my tongue slipping in the little
bag, licking up the sugar when Gannon takes the
bag, pouring some in his hands, my wolf side going berserk on the damn things, even licking his fin like a pig. Yet Gannon didn’t seem to mind, his hand on my rump while he let me lick the sugar from "Want to run to the river with me?” he asks when I finish eating the entire bag. I look up at the sky, k “The men can get their dinner. I already told Clarice you're with me and told Damian. They said it is f I could barely hear the water, so I knew it was a far distance, but he was already getting to his feet, a “See if you can keep up,” he says, grabbing his bag and tossing it over his shoulder. He then shoots ¢