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CHAPTER ONE

“SO have you thought about what you’re going to wear on your first heat night?” Rafe asked Chloe as they cli in the freshly driven snow

Despite the frigid mountain air, Chloe’s cheeks went hot with e her voice as neutral as possible, so as not to betray how uncomfortable this subject made her “Have you?”

Rafe slid her thered lace, ive me your measurements, I can put in an order online and have exactly what I want to see you in sent over to your place”

At that rateful for the darkness of her skin, because she could feel her initial blush spreading over her entire body And this despite the fact she earing little more than her favorite hand-knitted sweater over one of theprairie dresses she’d alsoepisodes of Black Mountain Wo these kinds of conversations with Rafe always make her so uneasy? He wasn’t just her fiancé, he was also her best friend—really her only truly close friend offline—and she’d beco all of her problems to him

But of course, she couldn’t tell him how unco of a sexual nature Was this how all she-wolves who hadn’t gone into heat felt about the subject of sex? If she were a noro to the internet with her problem Find a forum of similar women with a similar issue Or maybe she’d consult one of her Black Mountain Woman fans Many of them had come to feel like real friends over the three years she’d hosted her blog and YouTube show, and she knew at least a few of theated their way around sticky relationship issues

However, the North A on the internet about anything involving their species It was bad enough, in their opinion, that interest in olves was at an all ti made about their supposedlyor forum that any non-paranormal could happen across

Besides, even if she were able to reach out to other she-wolves on line, she doubted she would find much commiseration There were only a few hundred alpha wolves in the entire world, and Rafe Nightwolf, the alpha prince of Colorado, had chosen her, a nobody she-ho had literally been abandoned at the side of the road outside their shifter town

Rafe also happened to be ridiculously hot, with his Native A, sharp nose, softened by the light brown eyes and toasted brown skin he’d inherited from his Latina mother When he’d proposed to her in front of everyone at their high school graduation, the other young she-wolves in their class had only been half-joking about how jealous they were Any other she-ould kill to have a olf as good-looking and well off as Rafe ask for her hand in e

He was also kind and had proven himself to be incredibly patient So far he’d waited over six years to consummate their relationship, since North A with a she-ho hadn’t yet had her first heat Most she-wolves went into heat between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, which hy female wolves tended toby modern standards

However, Chloe had turned twenty-five a couple of ly infinite patience was showing signs of wearing thin He’d been snapping at herher prairie dresses to for on her Black Mountain Woht whenever they were alone together, i out loud what they would do and how they would do it And though she’d had six years to get used to the idea, and had even watched a few porn movies in the hopes it would ju herself to talk about it or even fully iine it in her own head