[She can't help but smile against his shoulder as he hugs her again, and the wolf trills in the back of her head...so quiet, so content, so perfectly tranquil she almost feels human again.
Then she realizes what he's saying...and everything in her goes just as still, the breath leaving her lungs as she draws back to look into his face, her jaw hanging open in shock.
If I'm not a true alpha...]
Scott...a-are you...do you mean...
[She knows it's real. She feels it happening, every day glimpses of that power...
...but this is the proof she needs to hold onto hope. This is the proof she told Tig was real, never realizing that it was something she could touch, something she could smile at and hold and call pack.
[Spam]
Then she realizes what he's saying...and everything in her goes just as still, the breath leaving her lungs as she draws back to look into his face, her jaw hanging open in shock.
If I'm not a true alpha...]
Scott...a-are you...do you mean...
[She knows it's real. She feels it happening, every day glimpses of that power...
...but this is the proof she needs to hold onto hope. This is the proof she told Tig was real, never realizing that it was something she could touch, something she could smile at and hold and call pack.
Another world, another life...another Scott.
A true Alpha.]