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Chapter 285 – Home Guard
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2026-10-02 13:46:47
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Knotting the Hunter Chapter 24 – Eyes Open
CodyI just said yes to a date with Rafe, out loud and stark naked in Mato’s backyard, with Mato standing right next to me. And I used my sweetest voice to do it.I wanted Mato to stop me, and that’s the whole stupid reason I did it. Now Rafe’s going to walk into Mato’s kitchen tomorrow night thinking he’s won something, and I’m the one who handed it to him.On top of that, I told him Mato won’t be home all night, so he’s probably expecting a lot more than dinner.“Your wolf gave Mato a stick, and you’ve just given me a dinner date,” Rafe says. “I’d say that puts us about even.”He’s counting a stick against a dinner, out loud, with the man he thinks he’s beating right there listening. We’re not even, and there isn’t anything between us to be even about.‘I gave him the stripey one’s stick, right in front of everybody,’ my wolf says, outraged. ‘What else does the bear want, a dead rabbit on his pillow?’Honestly, Mato would probably have liked a rabbit better than what I just did.Out
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 23 – Brindle
Mato“Please tell me you didn’t know about this.”Cody’s beside the rig before I’ve even shut the engine off, with his arms folded tight.Behind him, Rafe’s sitting on my front steps, leaning back on his elbows with his legs out across the bottom one. The whole place smells like him. He’s been there long enough that it’s soaked right in.‘Get rid of him,’ my wolf growls, like Rafe’s climbed into our bed.My claws are already pushing at my fingertips. I keep them in, because Rafe’s watching me, and he’d love to see exactly how jealous I am.I really wish I could tell Cody I had no idea.“I knew. Dax decided it while I was sitting in his kitchen. I argued with him until he told me to go home. Then I got called out to a breakdown as soon as I got back to my truck. I should’ve texted you the second he said it. I’m sorry.”“You should have,” he says. “I didn’t know if you were in on it.”I could take him being angry. He smells hurt, and one text from me would have saved him that.“I wasn’t
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 22 – Notice
CodyI’m about to text Mom that I’m home when the phone starts ringing in my hand.I’ve been lying to her for three years, but I’ve always done it a little at a time, in a text or over the phone, and changed the subject whenever she got too close. Next week I’ve got to do it all at once, sitting across from her at her kitchen table while Sloane records all of it.I’m scared to death I’ll trip over something I told her years ago and can’t even remember saying.Across the room, Mato’s on the phone with Dax. He’s swearing so loudly on the other end that I can hear him from over here without even trying.“Hi, sweetie! Just checking you made it home.”“Yeah, I just walked in. The roads weren’t even that bad.”“Good. Sloane just called me. She says you’re going to sit in with me next week!” She’s practically singing it. “You have no idea how happy that makes me.”Sloane got to Mom before I could tell her a thing. Now, if I back out, I’m the one taking it away from her. That’s a dirty move,
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 21 – Gone North
MatoThe front door of Cody’s mother’s house opens, and it isn’t Cody who comes out.I’ve been sitting out here for half an hour with the window rolled up. With the engine off, I could hear most of what’s being said in that kitchen if I let myself, and I’m not doing it. The last time somebody heard something that wasn’t meant for them, it cost me three years with him.I’ve spent it trying to work out how to tell him why I stepped back in my driveway, without it sounding like I’m pushing him away again. I haven’t gotten anywhere. Every version I come up with sounds like a man letting somebody down easy, and that’s the last thing I want to do to him.The woman coming down the steps is in a puffy blue coat, and she walked out of that house while Cody’s still in it, so she has to be the podcaster. She doesn’t go to the little car parked in front of me. She walks straight across the snow to my window and knocks on it.There’s no polite way to ignore somebody standing two feet from your doo
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 20 – Porch Light
CodySloane Tremblay got to my mom. Right this minute she’s sitting in Mom’s kitchen.The message is over and I’m still standing here with the phone jammed against my ear, half hoping Mom will call back and say she’s kidding.Mom knows exactly one version of the months I was missing, and it’s the one I made up for her. She’ll tell Sloane all of it, and she’ll be so proud of me the whole time.After that, Sloane’s going to take it home and pick it apart until she finds all the bits that don’t add up.Mato heard the whole message, same as I did. My mouth still tastes like him, and I’m furious with him. All of it’s going to have to wait until I’ve dealt with Mom.‘He kissed us,’ my wolf says, like it’s breaking news. ‘Forget the podcaster. Drag him inside and make him finish what he started, twice.’We’re not dragging anybody anywhere. That woman’s having tea with our mom, and it’s not something we get to ignore.“I have to go,” I tell Mato. “We’re not done, though. I’m going to go stop
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 19 – What I Heard
MatoFuck. I remember that night. He was taking the trash out when I said that, and he obviously heard me.Noah asked me why I was keeping my distance from Cody, and I gave him the honest answer, standing in the Alpha house kitchen. I know exactly how good wolf hearing is, and I should know better than to say anything that I wouldn’t say to someone’s face.That was the same night Cody came in from outside, thanked me for looking out for him and told me I could get back to my own life. I thought he was finally ready to manage without me. I was proud of him, for Goddess’ sake.All this time I thought he was done with us. I sent him one text, got “All good” back, and took that as my answer. I left him alone, since that’s what I thought he wanted.He walked away because of something I said. All that time missing him, with him a few miles down the road, thinking I didn’t want him.That’s why he’s so angry about me thinking of him as a kid. I may not have used those exact words, but it came
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
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 4 – Downwind
DaxFor the last hour I've been telling myself I'm only out here to keep the idiot from getting himself killed.It's a good lie.Responsible.Very Alpha.The kind of thing my father would've said with a straight face right before going off and doing exactly what he wanted.Truth is, I caught his tr
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 3 – Sign
NoahThree miles from where you should be standing.The asshole could have at least given me a direction.Fortunately, I’ve learned to trust my instincts.Hunters don’t have any inherent magic, but our senses are more developed than those of ordinary humans.So here I am.Three miles out from the N
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