Shortly after I sat back down, my female wolf showed back up and lay down next to me. Everything was quiet on the other side of the rocks.The next tim... the wolves woke me was just before dawn. The moon hung low in the western sky, the bottom edge just touching the far horizon. The female wolf was still near me, although she was alert and watching below us from between the rocks. I saw no predators when I looked, but a couple of deer were drinking from the stream. Since they looked to be. And I will be forever grateful to him, not least because that means I'm no longer Dawn Uhlgren." Another ripple of laughter at the unfortunate Nordic name. "I loved my father, and Guiseppe never tried to replace him. But he came along and brought life back to my mother, and brought us into his home as part of a new family, with his sons Tony and Marco. Marco and I have grown up together--Tony, I don't know so well, since he left soon after I arrived--but I love them both like brothers." Papa. I grasped his shirt and gently pulled it off of him. Then it was just him and I, staring at the other’s naked body for a moment. I cleared my throat. “Do you mind if I…?” I trailed off and he met my eyes with his own.“I trust you, whatever it is,” he said. I took that as confirmation.My curious hands started ghosting along his body. First his face, then his shoulders, arms, then his chest. I took my thumb and gently caressed his left nipple, feeling it harden under my touch. I did the same with. "When I took in their Tor, I had a revelation. Perhaps the Empyrianchanged me, I don't know, but I do know that I'm home now General."He paused to let those words sink in."This is where I belong. I want to be Viragonian and to prove it toyou, I am going to tell you everything I know about how to defeatElsmere. Together you, me, my family, we will bring victory to Virago.I will become the woman my mother dreamed I would, and I will help youcrush Elsmere," he said breaking into a wicked smile..