Page 1 of Mated to Fenrir
Chapter 1
DELIA
I knocked on the front door of my best friend's new flat. Though it wasn'tthatnew, Anise had moved in with her boyfriend about a year ago, but I'd known her living in her old place for so long that this one still felt like it was new.
She pulled open the front door and smiled at me. "Hey, Delia."
"Hey," I responded as I gave her a hug.
"Come in. The others will be here in a bit. Adelaide was supposed to be picking Chelsea up before they came here, but there was something about an escaped kangaroo. I'm not really sure."
I chuckled. "One of the dangers of working at an animal sanctuary, there's never a zero percent chance of an animal escape."
"Knowing Adelaide, it could also be that she and Horus lost track of time." Anise waved me inside, and I followed her.
"It wouldn't be the first time," I joked. Adelaide had told us of plenty of times when she and her boss had gotten a little carried away while working. They'd never put any of the animals theyworked with in danger, but they did struggle to keep their hands off each other at times.
I followed Anise inside her flat, looking around and easily seeing where my friend had made her mark on the space. "Where's Kuk?"
"Out for a drink with Baal," she responded. "Which is why we've got a girls' night with no gods." She picked up a bottle of wine and held it out as a question.
I nodded. If I was going to be around my friends and all of their loved-up-ness, then I was going to need a sip or two.
"Not that I really need to send him out to get that," Anise said. "I can just tell him that I want some time with my friends and he'll go do something else. Sometimes he goes to see his sister."
"And he doesn't mind?"
She shrugged and pushed a glass of wine towards me. "What's an evening when you're immortal?"
"You'renot immortal," I pointed out.
"True. But I think Kuk's hoping that I'll choose to take that path in the future."
"Will you?"
"I don't know. I mean, it's a big deal, living forever. I didn't give it much thought until I started dating Kuk. But I have to consider it, right? How could I leave someone who makes me feel like he does?"
I shrugged. "Good question."
She sat down opposite with a glass of wine of her own and let out a contented sigh. "I think I'd become immortal for him," she said. "I suppose it's a different question when there are others around who are going through the same thing."
"Have Chelsea and Adelaide talked about whether they'd take immortality?" Both of them were also dating gods, makingme the only one of our group who was single andnotwith a deity.
"Neither of them has mentioned it. But you know how loved up they are."
"Mmm." I took a sip of my wine, trying not to feel the stab of envy over my friends' happiness. I didn't want to take it away from any of them, I just wished I'd been able to find some of it myself.
"Sorry, I know you just broke up with Todd..."
"That was six months ago," I responded. "I'm fine." It was a lie, and I could sense the protest from my inner wolf in response to it, even if she was over him and already looking for thenextprospect to be my fated mate.
Anise raised an eyebrow while tapping her finger against her glass.
I sighed and swirled my glass of wine. "I think I'm going to stop looking for my mate."
Anise raised an eyebrow. "Really?" Her disbelief came through her voice. "Even after all the dating events you dragged us to?"
"You mean the ones you bailed on?" I half-joked. I didn't really mind that she'd gone to meet Kuk during one of them, especially when she was happy with him.
