* * * Max’s POV * * * Come on buddy, we can do this. We will find her; we will save her and we will cherish her. I need you. I can’t do this alone”, I say gently to Noah. You’re never alone. I’ll always be here for you. But don’t stop me when we find him, he tells me. I feel him come forwards as he forces the shift. With his nose to the ground, Noah hunts his mate’s scent. Trying to ignore the smell of s*x. He’s confused as there is another scent in the mix, stronger around the smell of s*x. He follows his mate’s scent away from the s*x and circles a bush once, twice, three times and a fourth slow circle. Raising his long snout into the air, he finds her scent. He has her. He tears up a tree from the ground, claws at another and then howls to the emerging moon. His howl tells the gro

