Swiftcurrent Creek Men suffer more from imagining too little than too much.

Chusi visibly shrunk when the alpha wolfess jumped and hissed words she did not understand. Dare what? Let a friend help her with a sickness she had recently developed? But then the pieces clicked. One by one, the puzzle was nearing completion, and what was left on Chusi's face was a horrified stare into the other female's fiery colors. Fucking... The act Ingram had so vulgarly described. The word she wasn't allowed to use. The thing that had gotten Lotte and every mother ever pregnant...

Mate...? I - How did I - I didn't know! Chusi stammered, placing her feet below her belly so she could run if the other decided killing her for the act was a proper punishment. Koji didn't say anythin' - no one evah did... I - I... Could I now be... She didn't want to finish that question. It was clear as day that what she had done might result in her spawning her own offspring...