I couldn’t speak, my wolf’s fangs still low and awkward in my mouth, the desire to leap into his arms and sink them into his perfectly golden neck still pulsing in my veins. It took everything in me to resist, as the polite aide interrupted our little spat. “Everything okay over here, Alpha? Some of the other males are getting antsy.” She cast a nervous glance at the ruffled group of shifters, more than half with their wolves shining through their eyes as they watched our ridiculously public show. So humiliating. I’m a doctor, for Goddess’s sake, not a teenager! I was as horny as one, but that was neither here nor there. “Everything’s fine, thank you, Emory. Please, go ahead and get things started. We won’t be any more trouble, right, everyone?” His eyes hardened as he skated past me a

