It would be four days later when our road took us far from the area of the Volsinii territory, and out of Siracusa's borders itself. Our route was a strange and difficult one. Given that there was no trail on the path we were taking. Being completely in untrodden lands.

  Provence drove while my shoulder recuperated, and I was more than confident in where she was heading us. That, and the geo-locater working to reflect our progress back towards the direction of Rhodes Island.

  -I've walked these lands often in the past. We'll steer clear of used routes just to avoid possible trouble.

  -''Best so after the fiasco we've left behind.'' I replied.

  Though in truth our little over-the-board mission seemed to have gone unnoticed by any large party of interest. A small blip on the radar of Siracusa's general attention as major societal upturns took place while we were there. We continued to be updated of the situation as our SUV's receiver continued to pick up radio signals from Volsinii. Though the static was mounting as we widened the distance gap.

  The seeming civil war on that mobile city amazingly didn't last more than half a day before Signora Sicilia herself came with her own forces to pacify the situation completely. The mobile platform of New Volsinii coming under her control before apparently appointing a small council of non famiglia individuals to form a new government. And most importantly, a new society which would be bereft of the famiglia's influence.

  Honestly it was an unexpected turn of events for the better. Provence took the news with great personal joy in her heart, and with hope for its future.

  -''Maybe in time the whole of Siracusa will change the same way.'' She said at one point.

  I didn't wish to spoil her good mood with my colder, pragmatic thoughts on the matter.

  -''Perhaps.'' I said in a simple and encouraging way.

  She took our off-road car between some steep hills. Throwing us off the main direction which we should have kept.

  -We could have gone around all this mass of hills. Have a spot in mind?

  -You know it. There's a place where we could set camp for tonight. We're far out of any travelled paths. And if they were following us by now we would have known.

  It was true, for while we drove I had made use of a scout air drone model I have brought with us. It was swift, with a long range and a powerful telescopic sight to look far out into the distance of our backs. There was no sign of anyone following us. And the drone itself was silent. Near invisible to any pair of eyes trying to spot it in the sky thanks to its choice of a light-blue camouflage painting and its small frame.

  It was thus to my pleasant revelation to know we could rest easier in the spot Provence had chosen for us. It was a small valley where thermal lakes were to be found. Hot enough to take a long and invigorating dip as she would tell me. More than that, she pointed to a hidden alcove in the steepest of the rocky hills. It would make for a prime shelter I concluded once I saw it myself.

  We were stocked with plenty supplies to be comfortable, and lacked being in need of anything on our way home. Parking the vehicle nearby we took out all that we needed to our shelter for a night before covering the SUV in a camouflage net. Arming the alarm once locked. The vehicle itself would be the first layer of our protection as any who would try to open it would trigger its blaring alarm. Waking us to the intruders if need be. Our second safety net was Provence's meepoo cyberdog. It would be in silent guard mode outside for the night while we slept. Third safety net would be Grape himself with his natural honed sharp senses. And that would be enough to satisfy even my paranoid sense of preservation.

  -Cassiel, how's your shoulder?

  -It's much better already, amazingly.

  It hadn't been a long time since I acquired the wound. Yet for the two years that I had been awake now I had started to learn a semblance of control upon my gift. I had realised that if I focused correctly enough I could will the nanomachines inside of me to centralise on mending certain wounds at more than their usual pace. I had done this mental exercise repeatedly since we left the Volsinii landship, and the pain was well away by now.

  -I'm getting better at using my gift that I can heal even faster now. I need to teach you the way for you to know as well.

  -I would appreciate it, my caring mate~.

  -You should get rid of the black paint on your hair and tail before we arrive back at Rhodes Island.

  -Alright. I'm sure we can find a village on our way back.

  -I'd prefer you do it here, where no stranger can notice the change. Better that the mysterious sniper sinks into anonymity while Provence returned from the Badlands once more.

  -''Hm. Using the clearing shampoo won't help the environment, or the quality of the hot springs.'' She spoke, reserved at the idea.

  -I know. Even so, it is a safety matter I want you to hold by.

  -''... Alright.'' She spoke, giving in.

  -Thank you. I'll make amends.

  -How?

  -I'll plant ten healthy trees in the Badlands for posterity.

  -''Twenty. And we'll plant them together.'' She spoke on a more lively tone. ''I'll wash it all off first thing in the morning.''

  By the end of the day we could finally unwind properly instead of sleeping cooped up in the car as the previous night. We were fresh and feeling almost anew after a long and deserved bath in the calming hot springs. As we settled we had covered the entrance to the alcove with two wide tarps. Inside was a campfire with an ample wood stock that I had collected. Also leaving an outdoor lamp on the ground besides our bedding.

  Provence took care to prepare a proper warm dinner while I laid our two sleeping bags, thick enough to act as a mattress of sorts. Our main weapons at the ready besides the beds on a smaller tarp while we still wore the holsters with our sidearms. It was a law for me to always be in reach of our guns. Be it night or day, on a mission or in the safety of our home.

  It didn't take long for my lupa to be upon me as I laid down to unwind.

  -Why don't we have some fun while I still have this black shade?

  -I'd like you in your natural violet one my wolf.

  -''I know, but we can take a certain advantage of it. Ever wanted to mate with the head daughter of a dangerous famiglia, Cassiel?'' She spoke as she took a dominating and arousing position onto me. Having come herself with this role-play idea.

  I grasped her child bearing hips, and she didn't flinch. Her body dangling slowly over me, rubbing her intimate part on my crotch. Wearing satisfied and predatory smile on her beautiful visage for my action. She was seductive as she still wore her full black tactical outfit.

  -''So foolishly grabbing me as if you won me over. Don't you know who I am?'' She spoke, already into the role-play.

  -Embellish me with the hubris typical of your famiglias.

  -Catch your tongue before I bite it off! I have the high ground here, insignificant human.

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  -Then why are you approaching me so unbecomingly of the heir of a mighty famiglia such as yours?

  -Why indeed. Perhaps you should give me a convincing reason before I rip your throat and end your race's lineage.

  -Because you are intrigued of how I marched into your city, broke all your rules, got all that I wanted, and left scot-free with blazes behind me.

  -And more importantly. You know that out of all the lupi in your circles, I became infatuated only with you.

  At that she purred a dangerous growl. From which I could almost feel the radiating danger and lust of the kind a mafia girl she was impersonating.

  -You're playing a dangerous game, mister Cassiel.

  -Yet here I am. Exposing my life to the threat of your death.

  -You think you can win me over like that? You believe I won't take your life tonight?

  -''Your life would be so much emptier if you did so. I preferred we remained by each other's side, for a long time.'' I said as I pulled her down onto me, and her body gave way to my will.

  She maintained her confident pose, yet I could feel her desire overcoming her impulse to kill me.

  -How can you be so arrogant over death?

  -Because I want you, my deadly lupa.

  She came closer, brushing her lips onto mine. Syncing into a light kiss before daring a second, more passionate one. She lifted her head back above, her tongue still out at me.

  -Perhaps you are worth keeping.

  -''You will keep me good company tonight~.'' She said as if declaring a verdict which I must obey.

  Provence rose on top of me. Her tactical outfit, as designedly practical as it were, was also moulded on her natural shapes. Exposing the beauty of her prime and shapely body. Her child bearing hips sat on me, pleasing me with every sight and angle of her being.

  My hands vigorously gripped her thighs all this time. And I had a sensation she liked this counter-domineering jest upon her. My hands caressed her bottom tightly before sliding back on her hips and up. Slipping here and there. Unzipping, unbuckling, and opening the way to the prize inside the covers. She didn't jest against it but watched with intrigue. As if studying, or admiring the audacity of my actions.

  I rose as she sat on my lap, face to face as my hands went under her uniform. Unzipping further and opening the way to deprive her body of the black covers. Her outfit bloomed open, and I pulled it down revealing her body, her uniform a black rose around her. Only her bra left to cover her voluptuous breasts.

  -''Are you pleased with what you behold?'' She asked, visibly interested and tamer than before.

  -I very much am, my black rose.

  -''This rose has sharp thorns.'' She spoke as her grip on me dug deeply. Hitting blood as she showed me her fangs.

  I flinched only lightly, but my delighted smile remained as I continued to undress my lupa. I grabbed her hips more aggressively as I pulled open the last restraints of her pants.

  -''Gyah! You're determined in your intent towards me.'' Provence spoke, taken a bit off guard by the suddenness of my rough action.

  -You should know by now that I don't speak half-truths with you.

  She rose on her knees before me. With this opportunity I took to disarming her. The holster on her hip suddenly falling out of her reach, and the sheath of her tactical knife now in my hand instead. I did so before she realised my intent, and then I took my turn to speak.

  -You don't need those anyway to kill me quickly if you ever wanted to. You are a deadly one in of yourself, my lupa.

  -Indeed I am. Are you sure you want something like that by your side, last human? I would make... an ill partner.

  -You are the only one I would ever want.

  She descended upon me. Grasping me into a tight and passionate if not rough tongue kiss. Her nails digging dangerously into me again. As she did, I felt the tide of her passion take over her more murderous instincts. My arms wrapped around her desiringly, and before long I pulled her down onto the sleeping covers.

  Now above her she looked at me, expectingly. I grabbed her hips and went downwards, sweeping her tactical trousers off. Slowly revealing her child bearing hips to their fullest, along her entire lower half to the splendour of their godly sculpted forms. Her large, black and fluffy tail wagging slowly in barely held anticipation.

  I let myself loose of my last garments. In this time my lupa took her initiative to unclip the bra off of her. Presenting herself finally bare before the last Terran man in front of her.

  A most dangerous lupa that most would have shun the thought of ever approaching her. But for all my desire and recklessness I had ended up with her, here and now. And I wouldn't have changed it even if I knew for sure that she would kill me by sunrise. I thought to myself as part of the role-play she was indulging us in.

  She approached me, laying her hands on someone she obviously wanted by the expression of her greedy guise. She bit my chin playfully before I brought her into another passionate kiss, giving into me.

  Our bodies intertwined together. Her tail finding purchase, coiling around us both. As if it caught a prize which she was resolute in never letting free ever again. She delighted in the intimacy we were having. Brushing her dangerously sharp canines against my skin. As if to remind me who she was, and who the real alpha was in permitting all this to happen. She grinded against me, eager in feeling my manhood against her own private part. She was hungry for me, and her breath told of the eagerness of the lustful instincts that were taking over inside of her.

  I grabbed her hips dominantly, and she looked at me uncertain but expectant for a moment. Before her confident and dominant sly grin came back. And I plunged my manhood into her dark being.

  Her face twisted in a pained expression which still held the signs of a prideful soul who endured it stoically. But soon my forceful vigor upon her took its toll.

  -''Aaaah~'' She had let out a most pleasing moan.

  Reaching the end of her deepest part with great force I eased up, just enough for my lupa to regain her composure. Provence still held her act, and as such she presented to me the face of a vicious lupa which nevertheless was being corrupted by the pleasures that mating brought.

  I redoubled my effort as I began ploughing her with vigor. Finding great delight at the visage that Provence presented me with. The arrogance of the mafia girl taking a step back in her own certainty as she struggled against the force and pain that was expected at first. She avoided looking in my eyes in this vulnerable moment. Unwilling to give so obviously into submission. It was endearing in a twisted way from such a beautiful creature that would have had no hesitation on murdering me in cold blood.

  I lowered myself closer to better admire her, at the same time that I gave into her a longer but more vigorous thrust.

  -''Aaaah~.'' She moaned mellifluously.

  At that point she moaned freely, though it felt as if I hit a nerve. Her nails again digging into me as she bit me again and again.

  -You moan so beautifully my lupa.

  I spoke into her furry ear, and in turn she loosened her fiercest bite yet. Turning to lick my wounds in return. Her legs were gripping around me as her tail kept itself locked around us. She was greedy in her desire, giving no regard for the dangers of our unprotected mating. And for all of it I couldn't have wished it any other way. I wanted this dangerous wolf girl. For all her faults and evil I wanted to taint her, to make her mine!

  -''H-harder.'' She managed to speak through her moans and squirms, and I indulged her.

  -''I'm going to come.'' I growled those words dangerously.

  -I'll kill you if you pull out!

  Her visage soon beamed with unrestrained satisfaction as I ravaged her insides. Before long she brought my endurance to it's limit, and all broke loose as I gave into her. Pinning her against the covers as I pressed my manhood against her deepest womb. For her part she arched, delight written on her face to have brought me first into critical ecstasy. She licked her lips deviously at our recklessness.

  Taking only a small breather to hydrate she rolled onto the bed on her knees.

  -I'm not done yet. If you do not please me to the end you will find yours a more gruesome one tonight.

  She raised her black tail like a veil. Revealing a most lewd and inviting panorama.

  She grinned delightedly, and licked her own sharp canines as I suddenly grabbed her tail and ass cheek. Slipping my thumb to stretch her honey pot open, I plunged a second time into this darkest lupa. Her moans unlike the first were wild, long, and unheld back. She was freely enjoying the pleasures that her instincts pushed her to indulge with the alpha man she found.

  She laid her chest down on the bed. Head against the pillow as she bit it, ripping it in the process. Relieving herself of any pride or attempt to hold a domineering sway. As indulging her mating instincts was found to be so much more fulfilling.

  This position was rougher and tighter for the both of us, but at this point we were indulging in the pleasure as well as the pressing pain of our tightly meeting intimate parts. My hard mass closer and pinning against her womb more tightly. Prompting a sweet and pained moan with each thrust that I gave her. Nevertheless, her tail wrapped around us once more as I continued my ministrations on her. My lupa's voice became more pitched as she was nearing her own greatly wished peak of sexual fulfilment.

  -''Are you sure you want this? It goes against your famiglia's order to assassinate me.'' I teased.

  -''In-inside!'' She bellowed decidedly.

  -''As you wish.'' I replied with a devilish smile and satisfaction.

  While I sped up my rhythm I could feel the intensity in my lupa's body growing rapidly. She was biting down hard as she was reaching her own limit.

  I thrust hungrily myself until her hips were hard against the bed. She gave a pained and out of pace moan as I thrust as hard as I could! Pressing my manhood against her deepest part, filling it to the brim for a second time! Thus making her reach her catharsis of sexual ecstasy. I felt her body detensing, and I brought her chin towards mine. Giving her a deep kiss.

  My hand brushed her temple before reaching onto one of her furry ears. Caressing her insides in a way I knew it would please her greatly. When it slipped down by her cheek she had swiftly caught my fingers between her teeth, threatening to bit them off... but she didn't. She menaced me with the possibility before wrapping her tongue around my fingers in a vulgar way as it could be. I came closer, and bit her ear in a playful but ruling manner. In return as a hint that she got the message she had let go of my fingers.

  -You are a wickedly feisty lupa, my black rose.

  Time passed in a blur after that point. Little did we do more but clean ourselves before collapsing onto one another on our bed rolls. Provence having crawled onto my chest in evident affection.

  -You are truly... a strange man. The last human to have picked a monster to his kind, and one with a blood thirst such as mine. Perhaps you are the more dangerous one between us after all.

  -Not for you. You know I would never betray you.

  -... Your words speak truth.

  -Are you truly content to have one such as me, last human? After all I'm one of the worst wolves you could have chosen.

  -''Don't mistake my desire for you as a fleeting lust, you would truly wound me if so.'' I said with a small, amused smile before continuing.

  -''Are you going to take my life later into the night, my lupa?'' I asked in a somewhat serious tone but with no evident vigor to fight back if she did.

  In response her beautiful but predatory eyes of a vivid sun like yellow were beaming at me with warmth.

  -''Why would I when I already gave myself to you.'' She said with heavier words, as if in a way pained by the thought.

  -''And especially now when I'm carrying your pups.'' She spoke with a hand upon her belly.

  I pulled her closer to me, and she let herself be willingly grasped into my embrace.

  -''You're mine now, Cassiel.'' She spoke with a suave but dominant voice which would break no other truth than the one she'd spoken.

  It was late in the morning that we would finally awake. Having took a long needed rest in the hidden heart of a rare verdant oasis. And after one more cleaning session in the hot springs we would begin packing our gear in preparation for our long road back to Rhodes Island.