Horizon Ridge If I fall for you, I'll never recover

She grinned when he said they should use the name, a little thrill of excitement sending a tingle down her backbone. "I can't wait," she confessed in a gust of breath. "It can happen any day now. I'll be two in February," she mentioned, referring to her cycle. Sexual maturity waxed just prior to a wolf's second birthday, she knew, so it could literally happen at any time now, considering her birthday was a little less than two months away.

"Do you think Akhlut will give us permission?" she wondered in the next beat. In spite of their enthusiastic planning and discussions, she hadn't forgotten that they would need to consult with the Alpha male before attempting to breed. If her heat came soon and Akhlut prohibited it, they could lose their chance for an entire year. This sudden thought made Pied's heart stop and then sink into her stomach. Her uplifted tail suddenly fell limp with dread.

Her eyes tightened and snapped onto Kisu's face. "I hope he will give us the chance. I feel like we would be good parents and that puppies would be good for the pack," she said between lips slightly pinched together in anxiety, "and its future." Suddenly, she tore her eyes from Kisu's face and cast them over the sea, which was choppy as if to mimic her abrupt inner turmoil.