This is a new thing for her, having him all to herself, out and away from the bar or their rooms.

And here, in these woods, with the full moon more that a week away, things are falling into place for her. She's beginning to realise, it isn't the wolf she needs to get to know. The wolf is simple and straightforward.

It's the man she barely knows at all. She's only had tantalising glimpses. His reaction this morning brought that home to her. Just when she thought she couldn't want him more, she looks again and her heart expands another size.

"I do believe it is." She smiles up at him.

"How much farther do you think?"