The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story novel Chapter 384

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Nicholas and I traded lazy kiss after lazy kiss until our backs ached and the sun crept above the tree line. We’d chased passion all night long, again and again. Despite my continuous begging, Nicholas never took me in the dirt. Though he’d given me pleasure in nearly every other way.

My body was pleasantly sore. I really needed a bath and a nap. Maybe a good meal.

The wild feeling, I supposed, was wearing off somewhat, and reality was returning.

“We should head back,” Nicholas said.

He was naked. I was too. Our clothes definitely went flying sometime in the night. We laughed as we went searching for them now.

“I found your panties,” he said and tossed them to me. I found my bra on a low- hanging tree branch. Nicholas pulled on his pants.

“Do you see my dress?” I asked.

He stopped moving. I went closer to him, and saw what he saw. My dress was a bloody mess, piled in a hump at the bottom of a tree trunk.

“Don’t put that back on,” he said.

“I can’t walk home naked.”

“Go back as a wolf, then.”

“I can’t,” I said. “Everyone thinks I don’t have a wolf. How would I possibly explain?”

“It doesn’t matter. You don’t have to explain. Let them think whatever they want.”

“It’s just a dress,” I said, and took a step toward it.

“Don’t,” Nicholas said and wrapped his arms around my waist. He pulled me back against him. He had on his pants but no shirt yet. My skin pleasantly tingled where our bare skin touched.

“Nick…”

“You almost died, Piper.” His voice was soft as a whisper, barely louder than the wind. “Please do not put that dress on. I can’t see you like that again.”

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The fight left me in a rush. I wasn’t all that keen to see myself as a bloody mess again either. I imagined it might be worse for him. I tried to think what it would be like if our roles were switched: if he had nearly died, and I was now supposed to watch him change back into his bloody suit.

I didn’t need the dress. I’d find another way. Even if I had to walk back naked.

Or as a wolf.

“Okay,” I said. “You win.”

“Thank you,” he said and kissed my cheek. He let me go and found his shirt. It was wrinkled beyond repair but he still put it on and did up as many buttons as he could – as many that weren’t littered around on the forest floor.

Last night, once Nicholas had released his grip on my hands, some of his clothes … suffered the wrath of my temporary confinement. Not that I’d minded. I just really wanted him naked.

Now, he started the trek back to the palace, Nicholas dressed as much as he could be, with me following behind in wolf form. Fortunately, his phone had not been damaged in our night of wild passion and he used it now to coordinate efforts with Julian and his Beta Brian.

Brian was an expert at sneaking around unseen, and helped guide us back to the guards at my door with minimal effort. I thought I might have to shift then, so the guards could see me and I could give the password, but Nicholas overruled that idea.

“They can verify it’s you after you’ve changed,” Nicholas said, within earshot of the guards.

If I wasn’t in wolf–form, I likely would have blushed.

Nicholas opened the door for me and I sneaked inside. Elva, blessedly, wasn’t here. The room was empty. They must have all gone down to breakfast. Thank goodness. I didn’t know how I would explain it.

“I’ll see you later,” Nicholas said.

I shifted back into human form. I must have looked a mess, but Nicholas still took in his fill of the view.

“I have to go,” he said.

“Then go,” I teased.

“You make it difficult.”

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I wanted to pull him closer by his belt loops and kiss him senseless. But I also wanted a shower. And clothes that didn’t have mud–stains.

“Later,” I eventually relented.