Fated To The Alpha: A Paranormal Shifter Romance by Simply Shifters, Jasmine White

they call a rock and a hard place.”
     
    “So then… you will marry him?”
     
    I frowned, searching for a way to say no.  When I couldn’t find one, I shrugged.  “Hell, maybe it won’t change anything,” I sighed.  “For a guy who claims to want me for his wife, he barely seems to pay any attention to me.  Maybe he won’t even notice if we keep this up.”
     
    He slipped his hand under my back, cradling me in his arms.  “Something tells me you don’t really believe that.”
     
    “Well, it doesn’t matter,” I decided.  “Whatever he says or does, he can’t stop me from seeing you if I want to.”
     
    “You sound like you’re trying to convince yourself of that more than me.”
     
    “Can’t you just let me believe it for a while?”  I said before giving him a deep kiss.
     
    The load of cum he had already given me tonight sloshed around inside me, dribbling out onto my thighs as I pressed my crotch against him.  I started to suckle at his neck as he massaged my breast, pinching my nipple in his fingers.  I moaned, pushing my chest into his hand.
     
    I felt him hardening again as I rubbed my slit along the length of his dick, making my pussy hungry for the next round.  I rolled onto my back and parted my legs, letting him settle between them and slide easily inside my tunnel, which was still dripping wet from our mixed cum.
     
    My eyes fluttered shut as he thrust forward, filling up my depths.  I groaned aloud, my fingers clawing at his shoulder blades.  My hips moved up to meet his thrusts, my legs hugging his flanks.
     
    Before long, I rolled us over, putting myself on top.  I moved my hips back and forth on his lap, feeling him move inside me as I stared down at his face, illuminated by soft moonlight.  When everything in my life seemed to be conspiring against me, determined to take my choices away, Jeremy had become the one thing that I could call truly mine.  He was my lover, my secret, my safe place.  Leon could call me his all he wanted; he would never truly have me. Not the way Jeremy did.
     
    I was so focused on his face, the pleasures running through me, and the soft sounds we were making, that I am not quite sure how I noticed the sound of something rustling in the bushes when I did.  I suddenly stopped moving, looking off in that direction.  “Did you hear that?”
     
    “Probably just an animal,” Jeremy said.
     
    “Maybe,” I conceded.  I started sniffing the air anyway.
     
    Yes,  after a minute, I did smell an animal. 
     
    The kind of animal I smelled was enough to alarm me seriously.
     
    “You smell that?” I said.
     
    This time he nodded.  “We’re not alone.”
     
    Somewhat reluctantly, I slipped off Jeremy’s lap and crawled forward on all fours, slowly shifting into my four-legged shape as I moved, sniffing at the bushes.  Whatever or whoever was there apparently realized I noticed them, and was trying to retreat.  I leaped forward, catching the sight of a furry shape dashing out of the brush and charged after it.
     
    My quarry was fast, sprinting around the trees ahead of us.  I knew I couldn’t let our observer get away to report what they’d seen, so every time the creature ahead of me turned a corner I cut across, quickly gaining ground.  Before long, I was close enough to leap forward and pounce on my quarry, pinning it to the ground.
     
    When I had the intruding wolf pinned to the ground beneath me,  that was when I finally got the chance to recognize her scent.
     
    All at once, I shifted back to my two-legged form, recoiling back.  “Charlene?” I gasped.
     
    Prone on the ground, she retook her own human shape, staring up at me.  “Something you want to tell me?” she said.
     
    “What… what are you doing here?”
     
    “That’s what I want to ask you,” she said.  “I was curious when you wouldn’t tell me about your mystery lover.  So when I caught you sneaking out, I decided to snoop.  So…”  She