Porcupine Ridge the shining [m]

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This extreme form of guarding he had seen before; it had worked against the other suitors who tried their paw at rising in rank and taking claim of the alpha female in his natal pack, so it was that he thought to use it himself here. It's effectiveness was proven in how the beta, defeated, slunk off, and the black wolf remained so fixated on the treating wolf he did not even notice that his alpha female had stormed off. It wasn't until he released the white female, having never copulated, was he met with a cold punch to his stomach and he felt his heart squeezed.

Had Capri mistook his guarding for actual mating? She was a sensitive wolf, and he was not so dense as to not realize what his guarding would look like... but he was inexperienced in leadership, and in dealing with women clearly, and he thought his talk with her prior, his assurance that none would take her place, would have been enough for her to trust him in this. It was the jurisdiction of the alpha male to prevent this, and prevent this he would. Regardless how much he felt the need to chase her, to explain before she could become too furious, he would remain with Vuk, until her heat had passed. Or all this would be for naught.