Lugh knew at the exact moment that his mate wanted to run away from him, he knew that his wolf form was very intimidating and aggressive, but he wanted her to know that he could never ever hurt her, that they would die for her.

"Stop, you're scaring her," Lucian warned, for he could already feel the woman's pulse racing with fear and her pupils dilating in horror.

It was no less than that, a wolf appeared out of the darkness, a wolf that reached up to her waist and desperately wanted to eat her, although not in the way she was thinking at the moment.

Sure, Olivia was terrified, but it was her fault for being stupid, nature was very beautiful, but also wild.

She was just a skinny weakling and didn't think it was possible to run back to the inn unharmed.

Nevertheless, she had no choice.

She turned and started to flee from the pursuing predator, leaving the blanket behind.

Of course, she didn't get very far.

She felt the huge wolf begin to chase her, as if it were playing with its dinner before devouring her, and before she reached the trees that would serve as an obstacle, she tripped over her own clumsy feet and fell face first into the grass.

"Typical, that something so simple can happen to me," was the last thought in her head before she psychologically prepared herself to die tragically, eaten by a wild animal in the forest.

But she would look her killer in the face before she died.

She turned and faced the large head of the magnificent wolf that was approaching her.

But she thought she was much braver than she really was, she couldn't bear to see the sharp fangs that she knew could rip out her throat in a second without any effort.

Olivia closed her eyes, resigned to her fate of dying for her stupidity, but the expected pain never came, but did she feel something soft wetting her face, was it its tongue licking her?

"Ah, right, I get it", he was tasting her to see if he liked her taste.

Good thing she'd had a good bath before going to bed, she was hoping he'd at least choke on some of her bones.

"Wait, what are you doing licking that area, you haven't had enough to determine that I'm a juicy food!" thought Olivia in a thousand silly thoughts, oblivious to her nervous, silly ramblings.

Best of all, Lugh agreed with her, it was the most delicious delicacy he had ever tasted.

It started as a game, he liked the challenge of his partner running away from him and then catching her.

When he saw her fall to the ground, he was a little worried, but then she was so brave, she had faced him despite her obvious panic.

What should have been a lick to comfort her spiraled out of control and despite Lucian's mental restraint, he found himself moving down her frail white neck where her pulse was beating frantically, telling him that she was so alive and so much his.

Lucian felt he no longer had the strength to resist, his wolf's keen senses taking in all the glorious sensations and temptations his mate's body gave off.

But it was the sight of her small, firm breasts, transparent through the thin nightgown, wet with the dew from the grass, that finally catapulted them into complete animal excitement.

Lugh stuck out his huge tongue and began to lick them delicately.

The hard, chafed nipples immediately responded to his encouragement.

- Wait...what are you doing...don't lick there - he heard Olivia whisper above his huge hairy head, but the plea only turned him on more.

How dare she deny him what was theirs? They were going to show her how good it felt to be touched by the other half of your soul.

Olivia began to squirm and even dared to put her hands on the wolf's fluffy head, trying to push him away, because she couldn't believe she was being turned on by a wild animal licking her so intimately.

If he wanted to eat her, he should just kill her, what a strange situation this was!

- Mmmm...no... - he heard her moan as he gently bit one of her needy nipples, wetting it with his saliva, he felt that she was distracted by unnecessary thoughts.

"Come down some more," Lucian growled needily, the arousing scent the triangle between Olivia's legs gave off making him salivate and completely hard.

Lugh agreed wholeheartedly and lowered his licks, trying to leave his mark somehow so that no man would even think of breathing near his mate.

Olivia tensed as she sensed the animal's clear intentions, hoping it wasn't what she imagined, but she wasn't going to check.

At the moment Lugh raised his head to gain better access between her legs, Olivia leaned heavily on her elbows, lifted half of her body and managed to push herself out of the intimidating wolf's prison. She turned her body and began to crawl with the clear intention of getting up and running again.

What she didn't realize was that her crawling position, on all fours with her buttocks raised, was a clear invitation to the wolves to mate.

Lucian's thoughts were completely mixed up with those of his wolf, both desperate to enter the body the Moon Goddess had created for them and mark it forever.

Olivia didn't know that she was activating the most primitive and animalistic part of her mate.

Before she could get to her feet, she was completely crushed by Lugh's weight.

Lugh began to erotically lick his mate's neck and to intimately cling to her with his entire massive body.

Olivia should have felt suffocated, trapped like that between the wet grass and the soft fur of the wolf, who continued to run his rough tongue over her neck, shoulders, and back.

Yet she felt strangely comfortable and disturbingly needy.

Her eyes widened in disbelief as she felt something completely hard and throbbing between her buttocks through the thin fabric of her nightgown.

She couldn't believe it, this wolf was in heat and it was obvious that he had mistaken her for a female wolf.

Although it seemed absurd, it was the only thing she could think of as he began to growl and wiggle his huge erection roughly against her bottom.

"I'd be raped by an animal in the forest, better eat me, d4mn it...!" Suddenly, the growl she felt right next to her ear changed pitch.

It was no longer so mesmerizing and deep, but menacing and cold.

A full-blown warning.

Through the forest, Olivia saw another smaller brown wolf appear.

It peered through the trees and watched her.

She felt the wolf's body on top of her tense and squeeze her tighter if possible, as if he wanted to fuse her to his body or hide her completely so no one would see her.

"Don't you dare come near my mate," Lugh threatened Damon, Morgan's wolf, his assistant.

"Ancient, I mean no disrespect to you or your mate, I have no interest in her, but please react and don't follow your instincts, she's human" - Morgan warned him through the mental link they shared as part of the same pack

"Sir, this is wrong, the woman is terrified, this is not the way to do things and you know it".

"How dare you override my authority and call Lucian?!!!" - Lugh growled, baring his fangs in a threatening manner, ready to rip into the insolent one, but the shudder of the woman beneath his body made him stop.

He was taunting her with his posture.

His anger wasn't directed at her, but it got to her just the same.

Deep down, Lugh knew his assistant was right, this was not the way to mate with his mate for the first time.

In fact, she was human and would never become a she-wolf, besides, even if they did it through Lucian's body, she was too thin and looked so fragile, Lugh was also afraid of hurting her, but unlike Lucian, he didn't want to give her up.

He had waited too long for her, Olivia was the light in his darkness, the will to live and breathe that was missing from his life.

Lucian may have fallen in love with Aitana, but he had no connection to her she-wolf.

He accepted that Lucian was living his love and now he had found his soul mate and even if she was human, he would never let her go.

She needed them and they needed her more.

Olivia felt that something was happening from which she was excluded.

She didn't know what was going on, but the brown wolf was clearly threatened by the giant wolf and it was obvious that he was trembling with fear.

But for some reason he didn't leave.

Were they sharing the food, were they planning to share her?

"You are only MINE," she swore to have heard a wolfish voice in her mind before falling into a deep sleep.

Lugh lowered his head, took one last whiff of the scent on his mate's silky pelt, and decided he had gotten away with enough for today.

It wasn't enough, but he would have to make do for now.

He sent a command to her mind to sleep peacefully and gave way to the irascible man with whom he shared his existence.

Lucian was completely pissed off, he had never lost control so much, never given in to the desires of his primitive, animalistic side so intensely.

- Go away, I'm fine now! - he ordered Morgan as he looked at Olivia sleeping like an angel on the forest floor, but too tempting and half naked.

He didn't want anyone to see his mate, his wild instinct screamed at him to carry her and take her to his cabin, to lock her in his room and bed where she belonged.

He took a deep breath, made sure there were no other members of his pack nearby, carried her princess-style against his completely naked body, and began walking toward the balcony from which this dangerous temptation had departed.

Come to think of it, Olivia Mitchell was no angel, she was more like a succubus, born to have him drooling in her palm.