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Nothing had been unpacked, Alicia thought as she hurried out of bed, pulled on her bra and panties, and then looked for a box thatclothes out of one, then another of the boxes, she finally found a pair of jeans
But before she could put them on, she heard footfalls headed in her direction down the hall at a full-out run Her heart went into overdrive
Chapter 21
Jake smelled the scent of the damn wolves before he could locate them in the woods Peter and three otherfor theat therass, holding so wound "Go," Sam said, the bearded, burly e "Find them Get rid of theruff man who looked like he lived as a mountain o after the tolves The others were strictly human Probablythem while in their human forms He would bet Mario was one of the wolves
Jake orried about Sah The bullet hadn’t been silver or he could have smelled its particular metallic scent But even so, if the bullet hit a et hirowled "Peter already called hiot to hunt down the bastards "Hell, Jake, Ieyes"
Jake shook his head and tore off after the scent of the two intruding wolves
Peter was the sheriff, and Heston was a new deputy The rest of the o on a manhunt or wolf hunt So there wasn’t any need to call in anyone else to apprehend the human bastards And if they died in the shoot-out, they died Siht to protect themselves In Silver Town, that’s just what they did
As for the wolves…
Jake was hot on their trail Or at least one of theainst a pine tree and growling at him Jake didn’t know if it was Mario or someone else, but he didn’t care The wolf represented trouble for Alicia and for their kind If he was ever arrested, and since he was either Mario or one of his men and eventually would be, he couldn’t be allowed to live Still, Jake couldn’t, with a huht kill without the wolf first attacking
They’d figure out so else to do with him, but what, Jake wasn’t sure It wasn’t the first tilad Darien and Lelandi were the pack leaders Tom and Jake and others of the pack advised them, but ultimately, decisions of this nature were left up to Darien and Lelandi
The gray wolf continued to snarl and growl at Jake, his nose wrinkled in a hideous display of ferocity, his canines fully exposed, the fur on his back standing on end
Another couple of shots were fired off some distance in the woods Jake wasn’t sure if that prompted the wolf to attack, or if Jake’s failure to look ferocious made the wolf believe Jake was not someone to fear But the attack ca the wolf he wasn’t one to mess with as his teeth tore at the wolf’s neck The villain shook him loose and skittered aith a yelp
Then he uttered a lol right before he dove for Jake for a second ti, which meant he probably hadn’t used his wolf instincts in wolf-to-wolf coh soht to the death
But the guy was much heavier than Jake, and the damned beast actually knocked hi through his blood, Jake scra he could have been dead ht Not wanting the wolf to learn froain, he attacked the bigger wolf this ti into a daed before the wolf could take a bite The th than brains
The wolf looked pleased, like he was suy was a bigger wolf, but he wasn’t going to win this battle Not with Alicia’s life at stake
And with his attack on Jake, the deal was off The pack leaders wouldn’t decide this guy’s fate He was Jake’s for the taking
Jake lunged at the wolf, going for his throat again The wolf’s and Jake’s teeth clashed in a wicked snapping of canines Ena off the trees like a wolves’ warning to others to stay away Then like two fighters in the ring, neither of the any headway, they both fell away
Tolves were out here, Jake reet the other also He had to end this now Easier said than done as he again attacked and the wolf matched Jake’s skill with more brute force
Jake whipped around in a circle, and before the wolf realized he was attacking again, Jake grabbed him by the throat The wolf tried to yank away and nearly succeeded But Jake held on, tightened his grip, and crushed him
He didn’t wait to see what happened next It didn’t round and would return to his human form One was still on the loose as a wolf, as far as Jake knew And his ti short