I wake to my body being bumped awake. I inhale deeply and grab for anything to stabilize myself while my eyes try to focus. "What the hell? Didn''t we go homest night?” I ask Ryker, Jeeves and Be who


    SUV with me.


    "Yes, Lamb, we did, but I figured we could get a head start this morning while you finished sleeping."


    "Head start to where exactly?" I yawn, looking around me. The forest here is


    beautiful. Summer is always amazing out in the woods. I love how many different shades of green there are,


    “That is a surprise. I figured my mom and your aunt will be busy taking over my packhouse with the new babies and we have not had more than a few seconds of time together, that hasn''t been sleeping, since "Okay, so we are going to be alone?" I look pointedly at Be and


    Grant sitting in the front seats. Grant smiles big at me in the rearview mirror. "I''m not sure if


    I want Jeeves and Be privy to our ''alone'' time." That gets me a full onugh from all of them.


    "Toote, Luna. I think every adult male had a vicarious ''O'' from what you did to the


    alpha when you marked him. We are all well aware of what


    you are capable of. Besides, no one is going to get in your way. The Bossman here actually speaks in full sentences to everyone and even smiles. None of us is stupid enough to mess with that.” Now it''s my turn to bellyugh. I have never been shy s*xually, I shouldn''t stop now.


    "We''re here." Ryker breathes into the shell of my ear, making my whole body quiver. We drive through the most quaint town I have ever seen. I can see from one end to the other from the main road we are on a Everything here is in shades of brown, but it isn''t old and crumbly looking. Each house is well maintained and fresh with flowers and trees in the yards. It''s like the earth grew each one directly from thend. I pr "Are you going to jump out of the window again, if I open it?" Be snarks from the front.


    "I only jump out of the window when I am pissed off and feeling suffocated


    by all the male testosterone around


    me."


    "That technically doesn''t answer my question, Luna."


    Iugh. "No, I am not angry


    with any of you at the moment so no, I won''t be jumping out of the window. Now open it! Why do you have the child lock on anyway?"


    “Force of habit to have them on when we travel. It keeps the alpha from putting himself in unnecessary danger and if


    we have to capture and contain anyone, it''s one less thing we have to think about." Grant says checking over his shoulder.


    "Now we have you, dive rolling out to prove a point to add to that list." Be huffs.


    "It was one time." I lean back on Ryker.


    "Technically two times, Lamb."


    "Are you ever going to stop calling me that? And what do you mean ''two?""


    "Not a chance. You jumped out of your bedroom window to run away the night I imed you as my mate. That counts and Alpha is still pissed."


    "As


    are the rest of us who had heart failure when we couldn''t find you and you messed with our senses, being way too damn good at camouge."


    I ignore


    the jibe and look around again. "Okay, where are we really?" I ask as we pull up to


    the base of the redwood cabin. I am speechless.


    The parking area is pressed gravel, not pavement and I can smell the water


    from theke nearby. We stop next to an outbuilding an dl jump out and tilt my head back to look up at the cabin. A flight of at least forty


    stairs leads to a decknding, which has another staircase up to the main deck. I can''t see much more front eh ground and I am not waiting for these guys to see the view I know ising.