Overture Downs You should go and love yourself*

Her relationship was born of adultery. Though young and naive, Saena is no stranger to cheating, although it had never been on her end.

Although she's aged since she'd unwittingly coerced Reek into having sex with her in spite of his mate, her questionable morals haven't changed much. If anything, Reek's willingness to experience her body despite Wynter was a catalyst for the further twisting of her morals into uncertainty, such that now, she doesn't miss the intimate suggestion of Luke's touch and doesn't protest it. A part of her knows she should turn Luke down, remind him that she has a mate, but then, there's something else in the way of that. She has a mate, but she's also attracted to Luke and, having formulated a mateship out of a hasty need to satisfy a primal itch rather than building it from the ground up, her attachment to Reek, albeit great, isn't quite so great that it overcomes her attraction to the blue-nosed creek wolf.

In this moment, the sensuality of his touches and his nearness, something she'd never really thought of but possibly subconsciously had wanted long before this, wins out over any sort of reason or sense of wrongdoing. She twists herself to return his ministrations with heated nips at the side of his neck and his shoulder as he passes by, and when his leg hooks over her side, she turns her head slightly but doesn't stop him. Rather, she whines gently, encouraging him and momentarily forgetting all about the man waiting for her at home.