The days were getting shorter and colder even though we were in North Carolina where the temperature stays relatively nice all year round. The humidity isn’t fun but that tends to go away with the long summer days in the sun. The leaves were turning color and starting to fall.
Walking out the new door of the new pack house, which was a work in progress and completely full already, the sun was rising over a group of early trainers.
The sun rise blinding me as I watched my mate, the pack’s Gamma, Serena ordered the group of mostly unmated males to halt and bow to me.
I coughed and nodded, trying to hold back that wanted to warn every male there that Serena was mine. She might not be mated to me yet, but she’s mine.
Sam snickered behind me, “Calm yourself there, Beta.”
“Why doesn’t it bo
