Maggie's Wolves, Part One: A BBW Shifter Romance (Red Mountain Pack Book 1) by Cara Morgan Page A

roll over at your feet and beg for your touch. If you decide it’s not what you want, then we’ll go from there. Okay?”
    She tried to imagine it. A pack of shifters to love and be loved by. A new family of people just like her. She wouldn’t have to hide who and what she was, or be ashamed because she was different. She wouldn’t have to be ashamed of her body or her needs either, not if the others were anything like Eli. Her human half feared rejection—because that’s what she knew—but the wolf had no such qualms. To the wolf, it was an easy decision. Her wolf wanted a strong pack, and a strong pack required more than a single mate.
    Outside the walls of the cabin, a wolf howled. The sweet song sent a shudder of pure longing down her spine. It was unmistakable, that sound. Undeniable, the pull it had on her. A flush of warmth spread over her skin and she felt a pulse of desire deep inside of her.
    A slow smile spread across Eli’s face. “Maybe we don’t have to go anywhere after all. Are you ready to meet the rest of the pack?”
    She nodded, feeling like she was jumping off a cliff blindfolded with no idea what was waiting for her at the bottom. But she was making that jump anyway, trusting the wolf, her and her instincts. Trusting Eli.
    “I’m ready.”

Maggie’s Wolves
     
    Red Mountain Pack: Part Two
    Excerpt
     
     
    Maggie pulled on an old flannel robe and followed Eli outside to meet the pack. The sun was struggling to break through the clouds. The air was cold enough to freeze her breath, and there was a solid foot of snow on the ground. She was shivering by the time she’d taken two steps from the door, but Eli seemed impervious to the weather. He wore a pair of old jeans and his fleece-lined boots, but that was it. She opened her mouth to tease him about catching a cold, but then decided to simply enjoy the sight of all that thick, bulging muscle. It warmed her up from the inside.
    “You can wait inside where it’s warm,” he said as she joined him. “I just wanted to talk to them for a minute or two to warn them about what to expect.”
    She raised her brows. “You’re warning them about me?”
    He coiled an arm around her shoulder and pulled her in close. “You need a warning label, sweetheart. Shifter in heat. Proceed with caution.”
    “Hey,” she teased back, elbowing him in the ribs.
    He laughed and buried his cold nose against the side of her neck. Pressing a quick kiss there, he said, “They need to know you’re new to our world. Most alpha females would already understand the rules of the game and let their wolves take charge.”
    Her smile slipped away. “I’m doing this wrong.”
    “What?” He caught her chin and lifted her face. “That’s not what I meant at all. You’re not doing anything wrong. I just want this to go well for everyone involved. It’s best if there aren’t any misunderstandings upfront. You’re still worried about this?”
    “I’m a little nervous.”
    Terrified might be a better word. She already cared about Eli, and she knew how badly he wanted her to accept his pack as her own. He’d been completely honest in his expectations about that and, while her wolf was on board with the idea of claiming more mates, her human half was beginning to second guess everything. There was only one thing of which she was absolutely certain—scared or not, she wasn’t about to hide away while someone else decided her future. Not even Eli.
    Resting her head against his shoulder, she took a deep breath to steady herself and was startled when she caught the scent of the approaching wolves. Masculine and wild, the scent made her mouth water.
    “I can smell them,” she said. “My nose isn’t usually this sharp when I’m walking around on two legs.”
    “It’s probably the heat. Your wolf wants to find other shifters.”
    She looked out at the woods. She couldn’t see the wolves yet, but they weren’t far away. “There are only two.”
    He nodded,