Chapter 5
The air was frigid, but that wasn’t why we shivered. Instead, the body I inhabited quaked with effort, a ripple of agony tearing through our midsection as our uterus contracted.
The cave girl I’d met three months earlier was giving birth within a dry but exposed rock shelter with deep drifts of snow only a few feet away. She was entirely alone. Well, alone except for me.
I needed to get back to my skin before my wolf did something we’d both regret later. But I couldn’t make myself leave this prehistoric teenager to her own devices when she was alone in the wilderness.
So I focused on spreading peace and ease throughout the cave girl’s system. It wasn’t an epidural, but the effort seemed to help.
After an eternity, the contraction let up sufficiently for the cave girl to coll
