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Chapter 45 – Rattle
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Knotting the Hunter Chapter 83 – The Empty Fence
NoahCorben's been walking the east fence since first light, and I've spent the last hour watching him do it with my heart in my mouth and my face set to bored.He's not supposed to be here.The second truck covers the north gate.But there he is, on foot, hands in his pockets, strolling the wire like a man looking for a reason.Twenty feet from where she sat."Coffee's still hot," Pruitt says beside me."I'm good."I'm not good.I haven't slept and every time my eyes land on that stretch of fence I see her against it, and the fact that there's nothing there now doesn't help as much as it should, because I know exactly why there's nothing there.She sat out here all night, right in front of where I'm parked, and in about six hours I'm going to write the word uneventful in a shift report.That's the job now. Lying in ink about a girl who deserved better than every single thing that's happened to her since spring.Pruitt sips from his thermos lid and watches the treeline the way he alwa
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 82 – Carrying Her
DaxI take the last curve fast enough that the truck complains about it, and the wolf has been pacing the inside of my skull since the word body.'Someone left death at our fence. On our ground.'Working on it.'Find out who. Open their throat.'Working on that too. Let’s just find out first what exactly is going on.Noah's voice keeps coming through the phone, low, talking me through turns I've known all my life.He needs something to do while he waits.I don't stop him.My lights hit his truck.Then him.He's put himself between her and the road.I'm out and moving before the engine dies."Dax. Before you look, I need you to-"I look.My brain does the stupid thing brains do, where it refuses the whole picture and grabs one detail instead.The gap in her front teeth."No," I hear myself say."No, hang on. Hang on.""Dax.""I know her."My voice doesn't sound like mine."Noah, I know her. That's Mary. Mary Masterson, she's... she was..."Nothing else comes out.I've got a photo of th
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 81 – The First Call
NoahMy phone is in my hand and I don't remember taking it out.Training did that.A lifetime of drills and protocols, and somewhere in there is a page that covers this.Hunter finds a body, hunter calls it in, hunter secures the area and waits for backup.My thumb is already hovering over Dad's number like the good soldier I was raised to be.One tap.That's all it takes.One tap and I can hear exactly how it goes.Dad's voice answering sharply on the second ring.The council pulled out of bed.Trucks on this road within the hour, floodlights, every hunter we've got standing where I'm standing, looking at her throat and saying obviously a damn werewolf did it.The body’s three hundred yards from their fence.By breakfast, the report I spent twelve days building is worthless.By lunch there's a vote, and it only goes one way, and by tonight my father finally has the war he's been polishing his knives for.Everyone behind that fence pays for it because a werewolf is the same as all wer
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 80 – The Report
NoahTwelve days of surveillance sits on the council table in front of me, typed, dated, signed, and it might be the most dangerous thing I've ever done."Read us the summary. We’ll go through it in detail later."Dad's using his public voice, the proud one, and I make myself not react to it."Twelve days. Three watchers in two trucks, working rotating shifts, we compiled a full log of the north gate and the east fence."The room is quiet the way it only goes for evidence."Movement in and out is consistent with a residential community. Deliveries. Commuters. School runs. Gym bags. Joggers. Grocery shopping.”The next part is because Dax warned them to stay inside.“No movement after dark out of the Reserve. Zero approach to town limits at night. My read is that they have a curfew and strict rules not to leave after sunset. There’s also been no contact with any site connected to this year's disappearances.""Nothing," Corben says from the wall, arms crossed, "Except the howling.""You
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 79 – Landing
NoahHe's waiting.Braced above me on his forearms, all that heat and muscle holding perfectly still because I asked him to.Wolf-amber eyes on mine, and the hardest part turns out to be that he's making it easy.I should've planned this. Should've written it down in the truck like one of my reports.I’m not a spur of the moment kind of guy generally."You asked me something once."My voice comes out lower than I meant."While we were fucking. You probably think I ignored it on purpose."His whole body changes.He knows exactly which something."Noah, you don't have to-""Shut up. Please. If I stop I'll have to start over and this isn’t the kind of bravery I’m good at."He shuts up."You asked me to land here. When I came off the fence."Long breath out."So. The thing is. I'm not coming off the fence."A flicker of something that looks a whole lot like hurt crosses his face, and I grab his jaw before it can become anything."Because I'm already off it. It already happened. I don't ev
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 78 – Off the Record
DaxNoah walks into my kitchen smelling like another man and I'm across the room before the door finishes closing."Whoa. Hello to you too.""You smell wrong."My nose is already in his neck, and under the cedar there's six hours of truck cab, thermos coffee, and hunter.A strange one."Whose scent is on you?""Pruitt. My shift partner. He’s been sitting eight inches from me since dawn, because that's how trucks work."'Strip it off him,' the wolf says, hackles all the way up. 'Every layer that stranger breathed on. Now.'"Already on it," I tell him."Jacket," I say. "Off.""Dax.""The jacket is coming off you one way or another, and one of those ways involves buying you a new jacket."He laughs at me, tired and real, and shrugs out of it, and I throw it in the general direction of the laundry room, hard.Four days of this.Four days of watching a hunter truck sit outside my fence through the trees, knowing he's in it, not being able to walk over and kiss him.Four days of the fence l
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 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
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