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We’d have lessons in the evening, dancing or sparring, then we’d put our clothes back on fro and share another ether, and off he’d go into the Forbidden Wood

I’d changed up what I was reading, doing ly, while there was plenty of history, few of the books focused on the day-to-day realities of being a shifter At least I was learning about the first shift, the need for the ani animals So far none of the approaches had tamed my beast, but I kept up hope

Hadriel crouched near two even rows of herbs, looking at the base of some thyme “This should take root, huh?”

Gyril and Jawson, still helping with the garden and happy to do so, looked over

“All you’re doing is putting a plant in the ground,” Jawson drawled “Do you need approval on every little thing?”

“He probably asks how his farts work out,” Gyril hter

“It’s good, Hadriel, just—” I paused as a gush of wetness filledan obscene amount of sex, to the point where I was sore , he’d been asleep This wasn’t some aftereffect of sex

Which meant…

My chest constricted, and I hurried out of the garden and through the sliding glass door to the queen’s roo this space to hiht now…

“Finley?” Hadriel called out as I pushed into the cool space and hurried to the washroom I pulled down my trousers and then my underwear

My heart sank at the sight of the red stain

My period It was over a week late, but it had come anyway

I couldn’t say it wasn’t a total surprise My breasts had been a bit more tender these last couple of days and the bloat had settled in You could only bla