A Warm Welcome
Working with Eileen and Akita, I created a game plan for the up coming long weekend. They would take Helen and Karen into the deep forest. To a place secluded and far from the pack. My role in it all was as I had stated: to guard the perimeter while the women underwent the traditional rituals of our people. The introduction to Helen was enigmatic at best. Eileen and Akita had shown up at the shop with hugs and kunik for me. I honestly thought Karen would get jealous of the unrelated female, but she seemed too dazed to react after the women I invited to her home gave the same greeting to her. Not intimately, like I had done, but as a gracious gesture of acceptance into the family. “My Lord, you’ve gotten yourself such a beautiful Mate,” Eileen preened. “Always meant for greatness, this o
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