Page 105 of A World Enough

Brogan got closer, so much so that Camber was up against the side of the medical bed. “Who knows? You and your friends will be running around saving the realm,” Brogan said.

“And you will be going home to Earth, so that means anything that could be between us is not going anywhere and not worth our time.”

Brogan leaned into Camber and sniffed around her neck and ear. Camber opened her lips and gasped.

Every time Brogan got close to her like this, she felt this deep need, this insatiable pull to Brogan. To be with her, to be under her, to wrap her legs around her wolf’s hips. But Brogan wasn’t her wolf, she had to remember that.

But she held strong. “Move,” Camber said softly.

Brogan didn’t move at first.

“Please.”

Brogan stood aside, and Camber left the med room to meet her friends and get some distance between them.

“I can say a proper hello now,” Camber said. “Thane, I missed you.”

When she gave him a hug he whispered, “Is that wolf bothering you?”

“No, it’s okay. She can probably hear you with that wolf hearing she’s got.”

“I don’t care,” Thane said. “I care about you, and I’ve never trusted wolves, as you know.”

“I don’t think there’s many you do trust, Thane.”

Ziggy was next. “Hey you, are you getting trouble from that wolf of yours?”

“No, nobody gives me trouble, Zig. Besides she’s not my wolf.”

“Whatever you say,” Ziggy said.

She then ran up to the cockpit and threw her arms around Jhosa.

“There’s my little Cam.” He swung his chair around and stood up to give her a bear hug. “I missed you. You have the bad guys chasing you again?”

“As ever,” Camber said.

Jhosa looked over her shoulder. “But you have a friend this time.”

Camber looked around and saw a moody looking Brogan slip quietly into one of the seats at the back of the seating area, next to Morrigan.

“Everyone, this is Brogan. Brogan, meet Thane, you know Ziggy, this is Jhosa our pilot, and he is Margot’s husband, and you know Morrigan.”

“You got into something with the Map Keeper?” Morrigan whispered.

Brogan crossed her arms and said, “Nat the time, Morrigan.”

Morrigan held her hands up. “Okay, okay.”

Brogan felt bad. After all, Morrigan come all this way to find her. “Thanks for coming to find me.”

“I promised Amelia and Byron I would,” Morrigan said.

“Was everyone okay before you left?”

“They were. Everything went as planned,” Morrigan said. “It looks like we’re in trouble now, though.”

“Aren’t these rebels always in trouble?” Brogan said.