I found myself walking beside Blair a few minutes after that, our footsteps somehow managing to sync, despite our differences in height. Neither of us had dared to say anything else, both of us preoccupied with our own thoughts and feelings. But despite all of this, it felt like I needed to say something. Anything,
The silence wasn’t tense or awkward, or any of those negative feelings, but I felt like it needed to be broken. Mates usually had about a year in which they forced everything—milking the newfound connection for all that it was worth. It was in this year that most she-wolves fell pregnant too, and honestly, who wouldn’t if s*x was all that you were doing?
I shook my head, scolding myself for the direction that my thoughts were taking. I shouldn’t have been busy comparin
