His wolf head came down from scanning the treeline and fixed its gaze on me instead. The intensity of the stare sent an involuntary shiver through me. I was very aware of my nudity and how exposed I was, but the steady hum of the mate bond kept me from feeling truly unsafe. He kept pressing at the mind link and I kept refusing to open it.
He suddenly stood to all four legs and took a couple of steps backward. I watched him narrowly, unsure what he was doing, and then within a second he had shifted back into his human form and Phoenix was standing in front of me. Naked. Very, very naked.
