Chapter 74Chapter 74
I was running, but not too fast. I didn’t want to get away, after all. But not too slowly, either – I didn’t get to frolic in wolf form all that often that I wanted it to end immediately.
After a few more minutes Ralph landed on my back and we rolled around. There was a lot of foliage, and the smells were nice, all earthy and natural. We were playing, wrestling, nipping, that sort of thing. Nothing too rough, nothing remotely threatening.
He rolled me onto my stomach. “Give up?” he growled in my ear. The sexy-growl. The one that made me pant for all the right reasons.
“Mmmm, maybe.” I stretched out and Ralph rolled onto his back next to me.
“It’s nice to be here, instead of the park.”
“Yeah. Benny really needs this place tenanted and I can’t complain about the size of the yard or the privacy.” I nuzzled his ear. “Think we can afford it?”
“Well, I’m never living where you had sex with Wagner, and I think we’ve removed all traces of Nero here. Besides, the Estates were affected badly by the last big attack. The Count thinks it might be a good idea for us to base out of here. So, yeah, I think we should see about affording it.”
“The neighbors are nice. Not nosy.”
“And we have a personal relationship with the Reverend, too.” Ralph snorted. “Though I like Helen a lot more.”
“Oh, Jeremiah Johnson’s not so bad, once you get past the stuffed-shirtedness.”
“Yeah. I have to admit that the itchy werewolf suit bothers me a lot more than Johnson does. And I hate having to spend at least half my existence now in human form.”
“Not my fault I needed a new partner on Night Beat.”
“Explain how you ended up with three of them, then?”
“Well, Sexy Cindy’s a natural and until Freddy shows that gray zombie look he’s invaluable. Covers us for the three different undeads rule even while on Prosaic City P.D. business. Besides, your job is to protect me, so I don’t know why you’re complaining.”
“The suit itches, remember?”
I nudged him. “But you’re not wearing the suit now.”
Ralph changed to human and grinned at me. “True enough.”
I rolled onto my back as I went to human, too. “Not trying for puppies today?” I was almost disappointed. Ralph had introduced me to a lot of new things, including that there was nothing better than having sex with another werewolf, in all three forms.
He stroked my hair. “Not today. Well, not this moment. How about that?”
I was already familiar with his stamina. “Not a problem.” The afternoon was young, after all, and we didn’t go on duty again for another night. Ralph rolled on top of me and I sighed. “Does unlife get any better than this?”
Ralph kissed me. “Not that I’ve found in over four centuries.”
“Makes eternity seem too short.”
He grinned. “I’ll do my best to make all parts of it last forever.”
There was an old saying, and I’d found it was true – once you went werewolf, you never went back. I was a weregirl in love and it finally felt right.
What the next nights would bring I didn’t know, but I figured unlife was a journey, not a destination. And come what may, I was going to enjoy the ride – in the donated S-Class, with my mate and our pack along for the wild ride. Unlife truly didn’t get any better than this.
Coming in Febuary of 2015
The second novel in the Necropolis Enforcement Files Series
From Gini Koch
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