Porcupine Ridge needful things

she held herself still as his breath and lips traveled over her belly. turquoise gaze found the sky -- she swallowed and tried valiantly to keep herself from curling away from him in fear.

the careful tones of the alpha began and vuk turned her eyes upon him attentively. his words were cupped into the swells of her ears, until his firm edict caused them to flatten against her skull.

vuk could not help her tears, nor the writhe of her body against the ground toward his dark forepaw, upon which she lavished desperate licks.

"n-no..!" vuk gasped, begging. "p-please, t-taggar...ik, no." he would turn her away, pregnant and alone in her attempt to find a pack that would take her in and allow her to birth the children of a stranger there.

or he would kill them.

bile burned her throat; vuk was only able to leap to her paws and take a single step before she vomited strings of saliva into the dirt. lips glossy with it, eyes wild with fear and maternal instinct, vuk backed away from taggarik, tears tracing paths along her cheeks.

a final ragged sob rent the air between them, and then the girl ran as she never had before, swiftly crossing the border and leaving porcupine ridge behind.