Blacktail Deer Plateau rowan [m]

Again, Peregrine listened raptly, enjoying Lasher's lilting speech even as he absorbed the information being given. When the Delta finished at length, the Alpha male shook his head and then playfully butted it under Lasher's chin, chuffing a single word: "Never."

Stretching out on the ground, Peregrine sighed thoughtfully and said, "You're so wise. I'll keep everything you said in mind, of course." He looked upward. "Will you join me down here? Maybe I'll give you a belly rub if you do," he teased, his eyes flashing.

As he waited for Lasher to join him, he rolled the words my love back and forth in his head, savoring them. Peregrine hadn't said those three precious words to either Lasher or his own mate yet. He was well aware of it too. He'd used that term too loosely once before and just wanted it to mean something when he eventually said it.