Blacktail Deer Plateau Wildfire

"Some dude," she said and Peregrine felt a single flicker of petty jealousy that quickly disappeared. It wasn't just that her story was both silly and innocent — and it was both of those things — but his jealous tendencies of yore had really faded these past few months. Hell, he'd once hoped to share her with another man, so what did he care if some random checked out her assets?

When she mentioned their first meeting, he snorted. "I do." He didn't protest when Fox coaxed him to the ground. He lay beside her, leonine, nearly twice as long as his petite, redheaded mate. "I really wanted to kill you that day, at first. I'm glad I didn't." Peregrine chuckled under his breath, kissing her brow lightly. "I remember thinking that you were going to get yourself killed and that it wasn't a bad thing to remove your genes from the gene pool..." He grinned. "And now I'm going to have your babies!" Or the other way around. But whatever.