#Chapter 12 Pretend Lovers

Helen POV Justin kept me speared in place with his strange, golden gaze until I must have completely lost my mind. One moment I was crouched beside my naked lover, enjoying the burn of muscles used to excess the night before; the next moment my body had shifted into that of my wolf, Joy, and I was racing through the forest as fast as my four feet could carry me. I didn't pause to think or look back to see if Justin was going to follow me. I knew I had most likely stolen his beast from him which he couldn't help except hate me for doing. My heat must have come over me a second night. That was the only explanation which made sense to my overheated, overtired brain. I couldn't process a world in which I lost total control of my inhibitions to nearly mate with a Lycan in front of my village then to literally mate my Lycan in the forest on the ground no better than the animals we were on the inside. Why hadn't I been able to control myself? What was wrong with me? Was it the