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When Sage woke up the next morning, she was painfully made aware of the fact that Andy wasn't beside her. Making her wolf call out in a fuss.
Usually, her wolf wouldn't make such a loud remark in her ear, and instead, Sage did her best to try and ignore it.

Continuing on with her daily routine of checking in with the progress on traveling supplies and the occasional run-in with the pups, Sage still felt rundown by midday. Though the explanation this time was that the party and dancing last night left her tired and sore.

Yet that was not the case.

The haze caught up to her quickly, and so she told Chase and Grey that she was going to take a shower and call it a day. Course that ended with catching Severin in the hall. Their new greeting of sticking out their tongue always caught bystanders by surprise. But Sage simply smiled off towards Tori and the others. They weren't as politically heavy as American packs.

It was a nice change that she could be who she wanted to be.

"H-ello lil Luna." Sev teased, still testing out the quirks in his tongue and voice now that he was able to speak properly. And he was doing very well, considering it's been about twenty-four hours since he was healed.

What're you up to?

"Take a nap, sometimes when I heal people...I get really tired. Don't tell Alpha. I don't want him mad." The guilt flashed across the Beta face, along with worry. He didn't want his Luna ill on the account of healing an almost decade-old wound. "It's okay, just shower and nap." He sighed, promising to check on her in a while.

She soon hurried off to the Alpha's bedroom and stripped into something that wasn't caked with sweat. And while a shower did sound good, Sage couldn't manage to get back up to her feet after resting on it for a moment.

However, she woke not even a few minutes later with an unnerved huff. Not remembering how she even migrated off towards Andy's side confused her. But even worse was that she was still hot, and thus she willed herself to the shower.

Her energy, however, wouldn't allow her to remain standing underneath the showerhead. She was no stranger to sitting on the floor.

Sev? You still in pack house?

Yep! You want a snack or something? There's plenty of leftovers from last night, some water?

Yes, please. I don't feel good.

I dunno, hun. I feel like we should tell the Alpha if you're—

No, he worry too much. I'll be fine later. Please Sev?

He mumbled another agreement over the link before fulfilling the Luna's order, once again feeling guilty than he had before. And after balancing the plate of food and glass of water, the male ventured into the Alpha's room and settled them both onto the counter.

But he couldn't move. His wolf wouldn't allow it.

"Luuna?" Severin called out, and Sage hardly managed to say anything coherent as she peeked her eyes open towards the door. She smelled him, of course, she did. Her scents were far out of proportion.

Andy?

Hey pumpkin, I was just thinking about you...How's your first day of Luna going so far?

I need you.

She whispered, her voice dripping with desperation. Especially when a small mew escaped her lips, and a ferocious growl came from behind the door leading to the bedroom.

Sev?

Sage called out in question, and the male tried to will himself from staying away from the Luna. He couldn't place it together, not with how his wolf wanted to pounce and fuck her into oblivion.
It made no sense.
Not when he was starting to like Elena's company.

Don't come in, need to leave.

I'm trying. What's happening?

I...I think I have my heat.

Her admission to the truth had caused Severin to lose his last shred of humanity as his roar sounded out. Calling those in warning to stay away, yet there was indeed one male that had dictation over him.
Especially now.

Sage not bearing a mark meant the smell of her heat would attract others, and the panic she felt as she watched the hinges of the door fall through for the second time this past month caused her to flinch.

Even if she told him to stay away—A part of her, the feral and animalistic part of her—Wanted him.

After spending a heat unmated and without Remus beside her, she couldn't be put through that again. This caused Sage's body to focus and relax at the sound of a worthy male coming to stake his claim, and it wasn't long until Severin had managed to pull aside the door.

His eyes onyx as could be as he came forward and fell beside Sage, his half-transformed hands digging their claws into her backside, causing her to ache in ecstasy.

"Alright, pumpkin, what's—WHAT?!" Andy shouted in seeing both his bathroom door off its handle, but also Severin's mouth connected to Sage's neck. Sadness had evoked his entire body until his wolf urged him to smell. It diminished any doubt and caused him to react more or less the same as his Beta.

Her scent was damning and addicting to anyone nearby, he was just thankful for having closed the door.

Severin had issued a warning in defense, but it took all of one look to set the male in reminder of who he was. Leaving the Beta to submit and surrender.

"E-Elena, please, call Elena?" She mumbled, wanting the addition of a female in hopes that whatever was happening to her body could be contained and comforted.

Yet in seeing the rising tent of Andy's pants starting to betray him, Sage had to divert her attention elsewhere.
Even if his eyes were staring holes into every part of her wet body.

The former Beta had been called, though the scent wasn't all that potent to a female. She was, however, greeted with a very lively Severin in hopes of drowning out the Luna's heat with his own affection for the female.

"Hello to you too, Sev...I thought we were taking it slow?" She reminded, though she was just as eager to do the same. However, as she leaned over to catch both Sage and the Alpha enjoying their time under the shower, Severin managed to catch her off guard and pin her to the bed.

Her squeals had been caught by Sage as she hummed in recognition of being pleased, though she urged Andy to keep contact with her burning skin. Right now, he was the only antidote to her pain, and he was going to fulfill it.

After the rush had cleared from their heads and the scent had been appeased for the moment. Andy managed to dry them both off and sit Sage on the counter. "I don't know my heat come...I'm sorry." She claimed, her eyes threatening to spill over that Andy was left to stop her waterworks from happening.

"Are you feeling any better...? Fuck, I should've known that it was coming. You're acting more Rogue than pack wolf."
"But I don't have mate mark?"
"The Moon Goddess decided that you're where you belong, Sage. She's blessed you and this pack with the chance for pups." It was hard to hear the sentiment in his voice when it had been cut off by a pleasurable moan from Elena. The two hardly made it far in terms of taking it to the Beta's room down the hall, but the huff of Sage's irritation caused Andy to smirk.

A she-wolf in heat wanted nothing more than to be taken like that, and while Andy was a gentleman, there was only so much he could do to control his own body from pleasuring Sage.

"Without marking?" She questioned, her thoughts on a thin line as the smell of sex was causing her mouth to water. "I can't promise that, Sage, not when you—not when you smell so—Good." The last word was mixed with a growl, it caused her to shiver underneath his gaze, and the only real protection she had was the robe he wrapped her tightly in.

"My bed is a little claimed at the moment. Maybe we can go..." His thoughts hadn't managed that far, not when she jumped down from the counter and allowed the robe to fall down too.

"Your bed, we join in too." She deemed, and that is how Andy had joined his Beta in the same bed. Course, they had a head start, but the male couldn't get enough of her heat's dripping scent.

His wolf demanded a taste and to settle the feelings outright, though, when he looked up from his position between her shaking thighs. He caught both Severin and Elena starting to get their own pleasure in teasing the Luna.

Elena's lips were kissing gently to her perky breast while Severin had trapped her in another kiss. It was a euphoric feeling to be shared between them, and no amount of stories from Blake could've prepared to share this moment with a Beta couple.

The moment that Andy's length had fully entered her, she felt complete. In an attempt to urge him forward, she wiggled her hips in demand, though it was taking Andy all the self-control he's managed so far in his life not to mark her now.

Bliss was an understatement, and perhaps it was the time of celibacy he had vowed to commit to. But a she-wolf never tasted nor felt this good, leading him to theorize that he was indeed to be Sage's second chance mate.

Currently, her eyes were rolled back at the number of strides he was taking to keep a steady pace. When he bent down for his lips to press against the base of her breast, her head turned further into the pillow. A small giggle escaped her, telling him that it was one of the many weak spots. So that only caused her to want to do the same, and Sage was proud to say that she did indeed find it right behind below his ear.

Such an odd spot, but then again, she was always ticklish. Especially when her skin burned to the touch.

It was a flash of scenes that caught Sage in a trans and made it difficult to fully focus. At one point, she realized that more wolves had joined, and many hands soothing her heat in hopes of gaining their own.

Many couples waited for this moment, and the smell was a contagious means of blessing the rest of the pack. Though Andy made sure that the males didn't get too comfortable with his female, he was currently resting with Sage at his side with others surrounding the bed.

While Elena was no longer attached to Severin, the she-wolf curled further against her Luna, and Severin curved his arm underneath his head on Sage's side of the bed.

The day hadn't gone the way they had planned, but Elena's burning cheeks had suggested one thing...That she, too, received her heat.
The countdown hadn't lasted all that long before Sage had straddled back onto Andy's waist and pleased herself. It was a beautiful sight that he adored seeing her take control when her blackened and grey eyes pierced through and locked his wrists to the side, all  in an attempt to keep his hands to himself.

Though his quick retaliation was to jerk his hips up to meet her unexpectedly, giving her the friendly reminder that he was allowing her to be top, he could only feel the smirk beside him as Severin laughed lightly—Even if it was drowned with the rest of the movement around them.

Just as Sage choked on her final moments of paradise, Andy whispered a final prayer that she repeated. It was now up to the fates on whether or not the paring would be blessed with a pup, even without a mating mark.

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Date: 09/13/22

Time: 12:47

Words: 2102

Author's Note:

So sorry this is late, I was having doubts on how I wanted this chapter to play out and this was the best version that came to be.

With that being said, I am ducking for cover as I can only imagine how this is going to pass over.

I know I hinted a few things from Blake's perspective of what Rogue packs are known for, and this is on the tamer side of it all.

We're currently sitting at chapter 19/37
Reached the halfway mark!

Alrighty, I hope you all have a fantastic week, and I will see you Friday, hopefully at an earlier time!