Just you and me, baby

He rubbed her belly gently, grinning at the feel of one moving beneath his paw. A life, where before there had been none. This was their future. This was what they were building together. “We’ll do everything in our power to protect them” he said softly, leaving his head against her stomach.

There were a lot of horrible scenarios he could picture, but he had to assume that they would be okay, unaffected by what was happening in the pack. “How many do you think are in there?” he asked her softly, pulling slightly more of his body across her, wrapping a foreleg around one of her own. Feeling the familiar warmth of her body beside his. He had missed her so desperately.