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Chapter 274 – Paper Trail
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Knotting the Hunter Chapter 274 – Paper Trail
Dax"Could somebody ask the man by the door if he'd like to sit down, or if he's planning to loom all night?"Heidi doesn't look up from the county map she's flattening across her kitchen table with both forearms.She's said about twelve words to Maxim since he walked into her cottage, and every one of them has gone through me."She wants to know if you're going to sit down," I tell him pleasantly."I heard her.""I know. I'm just really enjoying this."Maxim gives me a look that would freeze fire and takes the chair at the far end of the table.He sets a fat brown folder down in front of him and tries, and repeatedly fails, not to glance at Heidi every one point five seconds.I'm not proud of myself. I'm the Alpha of a pack at war. People are missing, and there's a witch in the woods stealing years off teenagers to keep herself young.But I'm having a great time.I brought him here. I wasn’t sure if I was doing the right thing at first, but I’m feeling pretty good about my decision n
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 273 – Narrated By
Noah"Put it down.""It's a clipboard, Dax.""Merrin said you’re not allowed to lift anything.""It weighs less than a fork. If I'm not allowed to hold a clipboard I'm not allowed to eat, and I'm not giving up food for anybody, including my doctor."Dax takes the clipboard off him anyway and puts it on the new front desk two inches from Finn's hand before going back to wiping down the rowing machines.Apex opens in eleven minutes. First time since the fire.The whole building smells like fresh paint, new rubber mats and the plastic the machines came wrapped in. It doesn't smell like Dax yet, which I hate, but it’ll be back to normal in a week.I’m working very hard to not remember the last time I was in here, or how close Dax came to dying that day.No thoughts about fire allowed on the grand re-opening. It won’t happen again. Dax is fine. The people capable of those atrocities are dead. Draw a line and move forward.Finn's been parked on a stool behind the desk since five, like a kin
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 272 – Kept Man
Noah"Touch that plate and I'll stab you."Finn's fork stops an inch from Diego's brisket."He's not eating it.""He's getting to it. Not everyone eats like they’ve been starved for years. He has manners."Tori moves the plate two inches closer to Diego, who hasn't said a word in ten minutes and is holding his knife like he’s worried somebody might take that too."Eat, Diego. He's all mouth. I won’t let him take your food.""I really am all mouth," Finn agrees, and steals a potato off my plate instead, since apparently that’s fair game.Tori doesn’t rush to stop him, and neither does Dax.Fair enough, I can take Finn. Especially in his current state.And of course there’s an entire platter of sliced brisket and roast potatoes in the center of the table if I want more.The food was never the point. The quick flash of a smile on Diego’s face was. And probably the way Tori’s scent turned all warm and grateful.Fucking Finn.The change in Tori over the last few months has been profound.M
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 271 – Any Other Business
Dax"So we can’t use radios," Kowalski says. "At all.""Not within at least a kilometer of any of the greys. You can use them on the road, but not in the woods. They’ll know we’re there and exactly where as well."It's the second time I've said it tonight, but he’s got thirty people to answer to, and at least one of them will push back on the order. He’s got to be able to say he double-checked, so I say it nicely and watch him write it down and underline it.It’s been two weeks since Nyasia sent her unwilling envoy to our gate and we’ve been doing our best to find a way around the stalemate she forced us into.So this is what the war looks like at the moment. Rosters and meetings about radios. Twenty minutes on whether the hunters are allowed to park on the grass in front of the hall.On the plus side, there are no bodies. On the minus, I’m going out of my ever-loving mind. I want this over with.We’re building toward something, albeit slowly. Undoubtedly, she’s doing the same, so hop
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 270 – One for One
Dax"That's nine.""What is?""You've had your mouth on my shoulder nine times since we walked in the door. I'm counting. It's healed, baby. It was healed before we got to the truck."He's right and I don't care. I've got him backed up against the kitchen counter with his collar dragged off his shoulder, and there's nothing under my tongue but smooth, warm skin where a wolf’s teeth went in to the bone this morning.Every time I check it's still fine and every time it doesn't help."Ten," Noah says, into my hair, and his hand's under my shirt, so he's not exactly fighting me off.'Take him upstairs,' the wolf advises. 'Check it lying down. Check everything. Thoroughly.'I'm considering it hard enough that I've got a knee between his legs, forcing them wider, and his heart's picking up under my palm.Sex is a celebration of life and I’m in a festive mood now that we’re home and he’s safe.Then the pack sense kicks me in the back of the skull.Reena’s somewhere on the fence line and some
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 269 – Volunteer
Noah"Fifty-six," Lainey says, closing her notebook like the number might keep climbing if she leaves it open."They haven’t changed their route or the time they walk, but there are four big grey ones now instead of two. Two up front, two right behind the last wolf. Nobody's getting near the back of that line again."Lainey looks at Reena questioningly."How did you even know it was a girl?" she asks. "Before she shifted. You kept saying she."Reena looks at her like she’s asked where the sun goes at night."Scent. You humans are the only ones who have to look."Dax hasn't sat down. He's leaning on the front table with his arms folded, and he hasn't looked my way once since we came in.I already know he's furious. Not at me exactly. At what I'm about to say.“It doesn’t matter if the back of the line’s being guarded now. I’m going to be waiting in the middle of the road when they approach. Where they can’t miss me.”"And then what?" Reena asks incredulously. "They chew on you until th
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 2 – Heel
DaxThe wolf wants to turn around.He's wanted to turn around since I cleared the fence, and he isn't being quiet about it, because quiet isn't a thing he owns.He just keeps shoving the same word into the back of my skull like a toddler with a doorbell.Ours.Ours, ours, ours."He's a hunter," I t
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 1 – Sight Picture
NoahThree weeks I've been hunting this wolf, and tonight, finally, he does me the courtesy of holding still long enough to kill.Big of him.He's at the tree line where Northgate's fence gives up and the real woods start, and he's shirtless.Obviously. He almost always is.Cold's got nothing to sa
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 6 – Tells
DaxThe thing's in pieces at our feet and my body's still waiting for round two.I never come down off a kill clean. My blood's still up, ears still straining, every muscle still voting to hit something else.I don’t think it’s a werewolf thing. It’s an adrenaline thing.So when the wolf decides to
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 5 – Carrion
NoahThe wolf hits it like a truck, and the thing barely rocks.Wrong.Two hundred pounds of Alpha at a dead run should fold anything with a spine.This rotten thing takes the hit, slides back a boot-length in the dirt, and swings an arm the size of my leg.The wolf has to wrench sideways midair to
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