CAN YOU FEEL MY HEART

Walk | "Talk" | think

Having Aranea around had given him a whole new perspective on life. He’d been happy enough living on his own with the motivation of looking after his pack and relatives to keep him active in his hunting, but knowing that she was there waiting for him each day brought him a new kind of joy. He tried to go into each day reminding himself that soon enough their children would be born and she would go back to The Hallows just to keep it from being such a shock to his emotions. Even with the constant mental reminders he was pretty sure letting her leave was going to break his heart. It didn’t really matter that she would come to visit and would still be a part of their lives from a distance... He was selfish in the sense that he wanted himself and these pups to be a priority over her the pack.

He tried not to bring it up though and just enjoy the time he did have with her as much as possible. He went out that morning to do some hunting, both to add to the pack’s store of food and to get something fresh for each of them, and when he returned with a healthy portion of deer meat he had expected to find Aranea waiting outside the den. Not seeing her surprised him enough to go looking and found her resting inside.

Leaving the meat off to the side just outside the den, he slipped inside to join her. He leaned his head down to leave a kiss on her cheek and to ask what she was doing in here when he noticed the squeezing, rippling motions of the muscles along her side. His blue eyes widened with surprise and looked to her with a mix of nervousness and excitement. “Is it time?”