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“If you’re asking me if it’s easy to watch, I’d have to say no, but you don’t have to watch. If the two of you have an understanding that the sex that occurs with wolves is only sex, and doesn’t represent an emotional attachment, it’s possible that when Lucy is pregnant with a puppy, you could have sex with a female bodyguard. It’s your present for putting up with wolf breeding and pregnancy, but you may not be able to divorce sex and love the way Jessica and I do. We’ve kind of assumed wolf attitudes about sex, and maybe that was easier because we’re both descended from wolves. But I know that Jessica loves me, and she shows that every day, and it doesn’t matter to her that I’m having sex with Brigitte, Alicia and Ingrid. She has sex with her bodyguards, as well as Gretchen, and I don’t care about that either. She’s a very loving, and giving person, and I know that.”
“If you tell me where you’re staying,” I said, “and you want to go to the wolf mating ceremony, we’ll pick you up and take you. You need to be ready to go at noon. If you don’t want to go, let me know.”
“Where are you staying, here?” Peter asked.
“We’re staying on the wolf compound. My parents will be using this place tonight.”
“Do you want to go, Lucy?” Peter asked.
“If we’re really thinking of doing it, I think we have to go, so we know what it’s like.”
“We still don’t have to do this if we go?”
“No, you’re going there to understand Janet better, not because you’re accepting a wolf breeding. As long as you go blindfolded, there’s no expectation you’re agreeing to a breeding. Up until you sign a contract and start accepting monetary assistance, it’s all speculative. The wolves don’t even know if Lucy is capable of conceiving. The medical exam has to come first.”
“Then pick us up at noon. We’re at the Americinn by Wyndham.”
“I know where it is. Be ready to go. I don’t want to be late. It’s my grandfather being mated and I’ve never attended a mating ceremony before.”
Before we left, I locked up and left the key under the mat. I’m sure my parents would be here soon with Lois.
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We grabbed a couple of the soft cloth bags they kept on hand to cover Peter and Lucy’s heads for bringing them to the compound and we were outside the hotel at noon, calling them as we pulled up in the parking lot. They came out to the car and got in the back seat with me in the middle. Brigitte and Sean rode in the front, Brigitte driving. As soon as we were on the road, I covered both of their heads and Brigitte drove around randomly to confuse the issue before we headed to the wolf compound, which didn’t take all that long. When we got there, I removed the bags and we got out. The mix of wolf and human forms was roughly sixty percent human and forty percent wolf for the moment, plus the actual humans that were there, including my parents, Gretchen, Janet, and a few other breeders. As expected, nudity reigned supreme. There wasn’t a single article of clothing among them. Peter’s sister, Janet, the bride, was also naked and I don’t know when the last time Peter saw her nude was, but he was getting an eyeful now.
“You don’t have to remove your clothes, because you don’t have to shift. We will, because we’re comfortable being nude. Do what you want,” I told Peter and Lucy.
We stripped off and left our clothes in the car. Both of them remained clothed. I recognized a lot of the foreign wolves, including Magnus and Takoda, from Arizona, Arturo and Julie from Grand Junction, Ward Johnson out of Penn Run, even Flint Spear from Canada was there, and as soon as Takoda shouted ‘Wolf Daughter’, Sean and I were inundated with wolves. I quickly met Steve, from Northern California, Lonnie from Missouri, and Gregory, from the southern Wisconsin pack, plus a dozen others I’d never met or heard of before. It was a little overwhelming.
I introduced Flint Spear to my husband. “Flint Spear is a Huron wolf who has visions of the future. He had a vision of me with Quinn. I told him I wouldn’t mate with a wolf, and I wanted him to meet the man I did marry.”
“Ah, yes, Sean Hagerty. A very fine man. I’m sorry your marriage is not fated to last that long. I can see that Wolf Daughter loves you.”
“If she loves me, why wouldn’t my marriage last that long?” Sean asked.
“I’m not sure, Sean. I do not see all of the future, only glimpses, but humans are fragile. Perhaps you drown. You run boats, don’t you.”
“I do, but I’m very careful.”
“The sea is a powerful and fickle mistress. I hope I’m wrong, but a few years for you and Wolf Daughter is all I see for you.”
“Then I shall have to love him twice as much,” I said.
“Yes, I see that as well. He is a good man our man-wolf.”
I looked at my husband. Please God, he’s got to be wrong. I want to grow old with him. I clung to him and kissed him hard.
Gregory was a very handsome black wolf from between Milwaukee and Chicago originally, with a very nice prick, around nine inches long, and currently erect.
I brought him to Peter and Lucy. Her eyes popped.
“Lucy and Peter, I’d like to introduce you to Gregory, the alpha of southern Wisconsin. Peter is Janet’s brother and Lucy is his wife. They live in Milwaukee, and they are trying to decide if Lucy will become a breeder like Janet. Peter is a little nervous because Lucy is his wife, and he’s never before considered someone else having sex with her. Humans are more emotional about sex outside of their marriage. Lucy hasn’t said yea or nay, and I’m sure a lot depends upon how Peter gets past the whole concept of infidelity.”
“Peter, good to meet you,” Gregory said, shaking Peter’s hand. “I can sympathize with how strange that would be for you. I appreciate you even considering the need for wolves to procreate. I can assure you, we’d take very good care of Lucy, and wouldn’t let any harm to come to her.”
“Thank you, sir. No offense, sir, but it would be extremely embarrassing to me if my wife were to have a biracial baby, even if we weren’t keeping it.”
“If you and your wife would agree to breeding, we could either arrange for her delivery in another city, where you aren’t known, or for her wolf breeders to all be of white ancestry. I understand how that would cause concerns for a husband. We’ll do anything we can to allay any concerns you might have. It’s very good meeting you. Lucy, it’s a pleasure to meet you, too. I hope you and your husband can agree for you to be one of our breeders.”
“Thank you, sir. It’s an honor to meet you. How old are you?” Lucy asked.
“One hundred, seventy-seven. Are you going to tell me I don’t look a day over one hundred and fifty,” Gregory laughed.
Lucy laughed with him. “I was going to say a day over forty, but okay.”
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“May I ask why you have an erection, sir?” Lucy asked.
“Because there are several aroused women in here, and I can scent every one of them.”
“Would one of them be me?”
“I don’t think it would be wise to comment on a woman’s arousal in front of her husband,” Gregory said. “Why don’t you let him fuck you and find out.”
Peter looked like he agreed with that statement, looking shocked that Lucy would ask.
“In front of everyone?” Lucy asked, flirting.
“Everyone in here is going to have sex in one form or the other before the mating ceremony is over. Don’t be afraid of your own sexuality. Good to meet you both.”
We went to the dining hall where we feasted. Lots of venison for the wolves, but ‘regular’ food for the humans present. I was seated at a table with all of the other humans, making it convenient for them to feed us with vegetables and salads, since we were about the only ones eating it.
There were some toasts to the mating couple. The most interesting one came from Hubert, the alpha of Gerhard’s pack.
“For the second time in his life, Gerhard has fallen in love with a human. I never met the first one, as it was before my time as Alpha, but I’ve met their daughter, Anita, the fruit of their union, and she is an amazing woman, who herself was mated by her husband, Simon, and gave us Wolf Daughter, who needs no introduction to this company, as we’ve all heard of her exploits on behalf of wolves. Who could have imagined that his careless breeding of a human woman would lead to so much for wolves.
“Now, he has met Janet, another human, brought to Rhinelander by Quinn, tracker for the New England pack, and our own Wolf Daughter, and fallen in love again. She has already given one puppy to the pack, and is carrying another, this time, her mate’s. She has learned the ways of the wolf, and is going to mate with one, giving up much of her past life to do so.
“The mating of wolf and human is very rare. So much so, that the last time in my memory it was done, was over fifty years ago. Such a mating has consequences for both. While mated to a human, Gerhard cannot rise within the pack. He is stuck in his current position as long as Janet is alive. As Janet is human, he can’t rule with a co-alpha who can fight at his side as a wolf. She can make no decisions on the behalf of wolves, though I’m sure Gerhard will respect what words of wisdom she may offer. Where she will make decisions, is pertaining to the wolves’ relations with humans, as she brings a perspective we don’t often have.