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The moon shone, a full silver dish hanging on the dark sky as Zach walked toward the grove, his hand in Val’s. The babies were asleep and being watched over by Tate.
Three months had passed since the birth and Zach was fairly confident he could shift and run without a problem now. He knew he’d waited long. He probably had been able to shift just a mere few weeks after the birth, but he hadn’t had the energy for it.
Here they were now, though, giggling a little like silly teenagers as they approached one of the city parks set apart for shifting, to avoid wolves running through the streets and clogging up traffic, especially during the full moon when the urge to shift became too strong for most shifters.
“Ready for this?” Val tugged on his hand, then slowed down when he remembered that Zach couldn’t match his wide strides. “Ready to see my sexiest form, babe?”
“I’m ready,” Zach said. Truth was, he couldn’t wait to see Val’s true shape. It was a shifter thing, but seeing each other in wolf form was special, intimate.
Hot.
Zach was hard just thinking about it, and seeing as they hadn’t had sex since the birth... Yeah, a guy got easily excited.
It was easy to get excited when your Mate was a hunky, muscular, and handsome alpha, of course. Even more so when he dropped your hand and started undressing, revealing that sculpted chest and arms, the V going into his pants—then unzipping his pants and...
Good God. Zach hadn’t seen his alpha naked that many times, but every time he thought he’d burst into flames with arousal. He swallowed hard when that huge alpha cock swung out, free of the pants, his own cock throbbing.
Focus, he told himself. Undress and shift.
“Come on, babe.” Val had toed off his running shoes and was getting out of his pants, stacking them in one of the lockers placed at the entrance of the park for shifters to keep their stuff in while they ran about in wolf form. “I’ve been dying to see your wolf form ever since I met you.”
“Yeah, well, you were in a hurry to knot, so...” Zach winked at his alpha. It was true. The moment he got pregnant, he lost the ability to shift until well after the babies were born.
“Any complaints?” Val’s long-lashed amber eyes were laughing at him. God, he was gorgeous.
“No complaints,” Zach said faintly and grabbed his top behind his neck and pulled, then stood there, a little self-consciously. “Um...”
His belly still hadn’t deflated completely and was a bit loose and striped, after having been stretched so much with the babies inside. His nipples were still enlarged and dark, puffy from being sucked on day and night by three hungry little mouths.
His face went warm, his eyes too hot. Standing in front of that masculine god, he felt not sexy at all.
Until his alpha stepped close and cupped his face, kissing him. “You’re lovely,” Val said against his lips. “I love your body, I love your face, I love everything about you, and you’re more beautiful than ever. I was there. I saw you carry and birth our babies. Your body is an amazing thing and I want it. I want you.”
He melted against his alpha. Val always made him feel good about himself. “Right back at you,” he whispered, “but are we going to fuck or shift?”
Val laughed, a deep sound. “Shift first, fuck later.”
Zach liked the sound of that. Pulling back, he dropped his pants, toed off his shoes and socks, and stood there, naked, bared all the way to his soul. “Deal.”
He saw the moment Val started to change, pulling his wolf out to cover his skin, to change his shape, dropping him to all fours. A black wolf with amber gaze, a splash of gray on his chest, gray tufts in his upright ears.
Magnificent.
Intelligent eyes looked back at him, waiting, as Zach searched inside for his wolf. He hadn’t done it in all the months of his pregnancy and he thought it would be hard to get back into it, but he’d been wrong. His wolf was right there, underneath the surface, lurking, impatient to be let out.
He shivered when fur rolled over his skin, when his jaw changed and his teeth lengthened. His spine curved as his tail sprang out and he fell to the ground on hands that became paws, nails turning into claws, his vision changing. The world shifted around them, colors muted, sounds sharp, scents flooding his senses.
His Mate’s scent, spicy and warm, exciting and comforting.
Val came forward to sniff at him, his tongue lolling. He looked as if he was laughing.
Then he bounded away, stopping to turn and look at Zach, as if to ask why he wasn’t following.
With a last shake of his body, Zach leaped after him, his soul free and tethered in the best way, his mind open to the energy of the night, the presence of his Mate. He’d follow Val anywhere, anytime—and he was starting now.
AUTHOR NOTE:
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There are two more books in the Lotus Academy Babies series – Kai’s and Tate’s stories, of course:
His Shy Omega (Lotus Academy Babies 1)
Lotus Academy is fabled across the shifter lands for producing the most beautiful, graceful, perfect omegas. Taken in as children from the streets or bought from poor families, they don’t have any rights. They owe a debt to the academy that only a rich alpha can repay - by bidding for a desirable omega, and eventually - hopefully - paying to Claim them as their own and lead them away to a cozy home to raise a family together.
No place for feelings, for romance.
And yet Kai feels something the first time he looks at the tall, powerful alpha in the dim light of a teahouse - and is floored when the alpha comes and introduces himself as Alexander of the famous Crown Clan, a rich heir and well-known alpha werewolf. Kai has never thought of himself as pretty or desirable in the least.
He’s even more floored when Alexander bids for his First night.
And then is crushed when Alexander disappears once more from his life, having left him with a souvenir that the Lotus Academy isn’t happy about. Babies are all good and nice once a Lotus omega has secured a Mate, but right now Kai is in trouble.
Will Alex come back for him in time?
Get it here: https://books2read.com/u/mq1Ww2
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His Bold Omega (Lotus Academy Babies 3)
After successfully graduating as a Lotus Boy, Tate Rossi is ready for his happily ever after. Like every other omega around him, he longs for a handsome, strong, gentle alpha to Claim him and start a family.
If only he hadn’t already set his heart on a specific, arrogant and distant alpha: Lucas LeBlanc.
But Lucas – Luke for friends – never declared any interest in Tate and Tate has resigned himself to his fate, that of being Claimed by some anonymous, unknown alpha who will pay a large sum and carry him away.
Only then Luke sends an official Claiming offer, surprising Tate, and filling him with a new kind of anxiety: does Luke really want him, or is he doing it out of some misplaced sense of duty and pity for Tate?
Tate wants love. Needs it. He can’t settle for less. He knows he should – he is, after all, only a Lotus Boy with no prospects in life.
But the prospect of a life living side by side with the man he loves with no reciprocation is likely to break his heart. So he sets out to win Luke over with every means the Academy has given him.
Question is, will be enough?
What is going on in Luke’s head and inside his heart?
Get it here: https://books2read.com/u/mlEBAB
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