Once we broke free of the throng of surging wolf bodies, my legs began to steady, and I was able to suck in some lungfuls of fresh air as my friends deposited me on a bench made of half a massive log, cut and cradled between two quarter logs to stop it rolling away.
“What was that?” Leigh asked, dropping into a crouch so she could get eye level with me. “Are you okay? Do you need to eat something, or was it just too much alpha juice in too little space?”
I snorted weakly at alpha juice, but it wasn’t truly a laughing matter. We were scheduled to be here for three weeks, and I couldn’t go weak at the knees every time we were gathered together, or dinner was going to get real unpleasant, real fast.
“I don’t know, but I think it was just… too much. The scents, the energy… I—” Tears welled
