Chapter 53

"Madam Alpha?" she asked reaching out to touch my muzzle.

'Of course she would know how I smelled,' I thought internally.

Tenderly I laved her chest and neck. She lay silently accepting the ministrations tears quietly rolling down her cheeks. When I was done I sat back and looked at her. I wanted desperately to talk to her about what had happened.

The ground came toward me and I watched it, apparently I grew quite a lot when I shifted. My hands shrunk as the fur receded. I sat down heavily beside Emily getting reacquainted with my human body.

Emily sat up beside me tears drying on her cheeks. She took in the scene around us and glanced up at the hill I had come down. The bodies of the two werewolves still lay in mangled piles.

"They are both dead?" she asked quietly.

"Yes, they can't hurt you anymore. Are there others?"

"No one else, just them," she whispered.

I put an arm around h