Porcupine Ridge the shining [m]

vuk wished very much to cry, and her eyes watered at the show of affection from capriccio. yet in her heart she knew that she was in the alphess' place, that it should have been the beautiful wolfess' cycle that drew the clash and growls of men, not her own. curling more tightly into herself, vuk watched in vague horror as taggarik struck his faithful beta and then stalked toward her.

the nameless wolf had hurt her with his thrusting; he had bruised but not entered her, and so addled was vuk with the haze that fell around her, she did not know but to pull away from him. half grateful, half apprehensive, the pale wolfess huddled in the snow as the dark alpha stood over her, though she knew his growls were one of possession and not protection.