Night fell the and the temperatures plummeted to near-freezing. Most of the crew shifted into their wolf forms for warmth, but Hannah crawled up on top of Michael’s huge body and used him as a warm, human mattress. She reminded him of a small kitten seeking a warm spot as she sprawled across his torso and used his pectoral muscles as a pillow. It was probably sacrilegious to compare a werewolf to a kitten, but she was so small and cute and cuddly when she wasn’t growling or biting. Michael had Caroline gather up all the blankets that weren’t being used by the other members of the group, and draped them over their bodies. They snuggled together under the warm cocoon. The sparks tingled between them, settling into a dull ache in his groin that was becoming an all-too-familiar frustratio