Exiled Villainess: They Threw Me Out, Now Every Beastman Wants Me novel Chapter 140

Chapter 140: Happy Feast

The settlement had never looked so alive.

Every fire pit in the clearing had been lit, and the warm, flickering glow pushed back the evening shadows until the entire settlement seemed to pulse with light.

The meat rack that Tera had built months ago was completely filled for the first time since its creation, and a fresh plume of light smoke drifted lazily into the sky from the strips of meat dripping fat into the slow bed of flames and coals beneath.

The wolves had turned out to be terrifyingly efficient hunters.

After the initial awkwardness of their arrival had faded, Calis had quietly offered to join the Dow clan males in their hunt that morning. And the result was a surplus of meat that both parties had never seen before.

The wolves’ precise coordination during the hunt had impressed Xavi a lot.

Now the results were everywhere. Sticks of roasting meat were propped over multiple fires, the sizzle and pop of cooking fat filling the air alongside the rich, smoky scent.

The Dow clan members moved between the fires excitedly, turning sticks, adjusting angles, and bickering over whose portion was cooking faster while the cubs caused chaos.

They tore through the settlement in shrieking, tumbling packs, their small bodies fuelled by the smell of roasting meat and the intoxicating glee of a night that felt like a celebration. The older cubs chased two younger ones between the shelters while two males rushed to stop them from accidentally running into the fires.

The other cubs sat in clusters near the fires, their eyes huge and their mouths already shiny with anticipation as they watched the adults roasting their next meal after the gluttonous milk fest they had enjoyed earlier.

One particular group of cubs were especially lively and were being monitored by Ermin while Bessier and two other females tended to the meat at their fire pit.

Nadia was shrieking and chasing another male in circles while Althea was busy with Puff Dumpling, her tiny pink ears flat with focus as she tried to stack pebbles on the creature’s back.

Puff Dumpling bore this indignity, having fully accepted his new role as the panther cub’s interactive toy.

Meanwhile, the wolves themselves stood at the edges of the activity, their expressions caught between wonder and unease. The fires, which their elders had taught them to fear, were everywhere.

Their ears kept swivelling toward the crackle of flames, and more than one wolf flinched when a log shifted and sent up a spray of embers.

But they couldn’t look away from the meat.

The aroma of roasting flesh had every wolf’s nose pointed in varying directions, and their tails were doing things their owners clearly wished they could control.

What baffled the wolves the most was how the beasts moved around them with the casual ease of creatures who had long since accepted that fire was a tool, not a death sentence.

One of Calis’s wolves leaned toward him, his voice low. "There is so much fire."

"I can see that."

"And no one is running."

"No one is running."

"Did they all hit their heads?"

"Stop disturbing Calis!" Faelynn snapped from her spot, cradling Luth to her chest as she side-eyed the wolves who had now shut up.

Calis wasn’t even paying attention. His crimson eyes were fixed on the female at the centre of it all.

Tera had just walked out of the storage shelter, taking the scenery in with a wide smile. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

She had rested well, eaten properly and was enjoying herself.

Her mates had woken her up later during the night to feed her, and Tera had blissfully gone back to sleep until she had woken up refreshed this morning. She had wanted to spend the day having some special ’bonding’ time with her two husbands, which would work as the perfect stress reliever, but she had been bummed to learn nearly all the males had gone out to hunt.

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