The Alpha's to Share: A BBW Paranormal Shifter Romance
feeling?”
     
    She carefully waggled it under the water and shrugged, taking another big bite of the apple. Juice dribbled down her chin, and she wiped it away with the back of her wrist. She chewed and swallowed.
     
    “Feeling a bit better, actually,” she answered. “I should be good to go in a few more minutes.”
     
    “Don’t rush,” Seth warned her. “We still have another day, perhaps two. But I promise I won’t let you get into such a state again. I will be more vigilant.”
     
    “Seth, it’s fine, really,” Callie said. “You’ve done so much for me already.”
     
    “I’m ashamed of myself for not noticing sooner,” he said. “It won’t happen again.”
     
    Callie said nothing, instead focusing on eating her apple. Seth hoped she would forgive him, and that in time she would realize that he was the right mate for her. He’d just have to be especially careful to attend to her needs in the future in order to prove that to her.
     
    Once Callie had eaten and he had wrapped her apples carefully in her bundle of clothing, he shifted into wolf form and Callie mounted him. His stomach was gnawing pitifully inside him, but he just wanted to get his new mate home.
     

     

     

     

Chapter Fourteen
     

     
     
     
     
     
    Callie heard a long howl in the distance, and Seth reared his head back and howled his response. He dashed toward the sound, and Callie spotted another wolf, a bit smaller than Seth, but with the same coloring, standing on a hill.
     
    The wolf dashed down the hill toward them, but Callie was unafraid. Seth had made no motions to defend them, so she knew this wolf must be one of his pack, or at least one he recognized as no threat.
     
    As the wolf approached them, he sniffed the air deeply and then shifted. Bones cracked and bent, and before them rose a tall, lean man who looked a bit younger than Seth, but was every bit as gorgeous. He was tall with sandy hair and blue eyes. Callie swallowed a gasp, but her eyes widened.
     
    “You must be Seth’s new mate,” he said, coming to stand beside them and extending his hand. “I am Wyatt, Seth’s brother.”
     
    Callie took the proffered hand and shook it. When she tried to release it, Wyatt squeezed it harder for a moment as if reluctant to let go. After a moment, he finally released her hand.
     
    “Nice to meet you, Wyatt,” Callie answered.
     
    She slid off Seth’s back and he quickly shifted, greeting his brother with a firm clap of the hand into his brother’s waiting palm.
     
    “How have you been, brother?” Seth asked. “Is the pack doing well?”
     
    “There have been no disturbances in your absence,” Wyatt answered, his eyes shifting between his brother and Callie. “So this is your new mate, huh?”
     
    “Not yet,” Seth said. “She has not yet accepted.”
     
    “What’s the holdup?” Wyatt asked, his eyes suddenly piercing into hers. “Are you not attracted to my brother?”
     
    She cleared her throat and shifted back and forth between feet, uncomfortable at being put on the spot right in front of Seth. She wasn’t sure how to answer.
     
    “I… I just… I’m not ready to…”
     
    “Wyatt, humans require a bit more time before making a lifelong commitment,” Seth informed his brother. “They prefer to get to know one’s personality on a deeper level before making things official.”
     
    “I see,” said Wyatt, his eyes traveling up and down her body and making her breath quicken. He looked directly at Callie and said, “You never answered if you are attracted to my brother or not.”
     
    “Wyatt, this is not an appropriate line of questioning,” Seth warned his brother. “Do not make her feel uncomfortable here or there will be consequences.”
     
    “I don’t mean to make her uncomfortable,” Wyatt said. “I only mean to find out her intentions.”
     
    “I have no intentions as of yet,” Callie shot out confidently, jutting her chin forward and crossing her arms

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