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Chapter 54 – Three Speeds
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2026-07-13 15:05:37
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Knotting the Hunter Chapter 61 – Souvenir
Dax"We're keeping the head."Noah announces it to the field like he's calling dibs on leftovers.Everyone looks at him.Then at the head.It's lying in the weeds being beautiful at us, which is a lot of nerve for something that lost its body an hour ago."Keeping it," Reena repeats carefully."The council's gearing up to hunt a vampire for this. I need proof of what actually fed on Dana, and a theory won't cut it. A corpse will."He holds a folded tarp out to me that he found in the bed of my truck."Wrap it up. We have to take it with us.""Why me?""You've got two working arms."Like it’s the most logical argument in the world.He's filthy, exhausted, and pointing that splint around like a scepter at a field full of werewolves twice his size.Every drop of adrenaline in me is converting into a very specific plan for the rest of the morning.Later.First, logistics.The wolf hasn't settled since the head made it’s dive.He's pacing my skull, high on smoke and blood, and he has opini
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 60 – Still Breathing
NoahDax takes the turn onto the dark stretch at a speed the truck was never built for, and I keep my eyes on the sky.Finn's howl came from the wrong direction.Not the woods. The road.The long empty climb between town and the trees, where nobody who knows what’s out there should be after sundown.I've called Tori twice. Voicemail, both times.Maybe her phone died. Maybe she's asleep. Maybe a lot of things.I don't believe any of them because despite recent evidence, I’m not an idiot."Faster.""If I go faster we arrive as a fireball," Dax says, and goes faster anyway.Then the headlights find the ditch, and everything in me goes cold.A bicycle on its side in the gravel, front wheel still turning.A russet wolf standing over my sister, hackles up, teeth bared at the sky.And above them, banking against the moon, the thing Tori told me about not so long ago.Tori's on her back in the dead grass with the training crossbow up.Aiming.Her arms are shaking so hard the bolt tip is drawi
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 59 – Foreign Nonsense
ToriDad's phone rings downstairs while I'm standing on his desk chair in my socks.I freeze with a book the size of a paving stone in both hands.His steps cross the kitchen.The ringing stops.Then his voice drops into the register he keeps for council business, the one that meant’ leave the room’ for my entire childhood.Can't make out the words. Don't need to.Noah said the medical report would reach the hunters by tonight.It's almost tonight.So while my father stands in his kitchen hearing about Dana Voss, I get back to robbing his study.The far shelf runs along the top, above eye level, which in this house is where information goes to die.The foreign volumes.Dad doesn’t place much stock in anything that doesn’t happen in our own backyard so to speak.I’m surprised he even bothered to have Noah memorize them before calling it all bullshit.Me, he never made memorize anything. Girls in this family get to dust the books, not read them.His mistake. I know exactly where everyth
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 58 – Bloodless
NoahDoc Merrin is kneeling in wet grass over a girl the color of votive candle wax.The last time I saw this woman she was sewing my scalp shut and telling me my skull was the only quality part of me."Good to see you with some color," she says barely glancing at me. "How's the arm?""Still attached.""That's the spirit. Kneel on the tarp, not the grass, I'm not treating you for pneumonia on top of everything else. I’m supposed to be enjoying my retirement."I kneel on the tarp.You don't argue with a woman who’s this agile at seventy.The girl is bad.Skin like paper, lips gone grey, an IV line running up to a bag that Mato is holding at arm's length like it might drip on him.I didn’t think werewolves could get queasy over blood.Reena crouches beside me."Dana Voss. Twenty. Pulls nights at the diner, walks home along this road. Mato found her at first light."Twenty.Same as Dax.Don't think about that."Marks are on the left," Doc says."Have your look and make it fast, she's got
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 57 – Hostile Takeover
DaxTori Hunter is sitting in my chair.Not the guest chair.My chair, behind my desk, rotating it a lazy quarter turn each way like she's deciding whether to keep it.The wolf is beside himself.'A pup. In our seat. Remove her.'She's Noah's sister.'Then remove her respectfully.'Finn let her in twenty minutes before opening, which we will be discussing at his next performance review, and now he's hovering in the doorway holding a stack of towels nobody asked for.Noah's against the wall with the splint crossed over his chest, wearing the expression of a man who lost this argument in the parking lot and came inside to lose it again.He called me last night from his truck.Gave me the highlights in that clipped mission-report voice while I could hear how relieved he was underneath it.His sister knows.His sister is in.His sister would be coming to see me.He did not mention she'd be conducting the meeting from my side of the desk.There are two coffees in front of her. She isn't sh
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 56 – The Real One
NoahTori's sitting on the dead chest freezer with my old training crossbow across her knees, and she's loaded it."Relax," she says. "It's not for you.""That's comforting.""It's for whatever might've followed you here. You're neck-deep in something, big brother. I planned for company."The lantern's turned up high and there's a thermos on the workbench.My little sister is dug in like she intends to hold the place against a siege.I’m worried she may change her mind about who the crossbow’s for once I’ve told her all of it.She jerks her chin at the hay bale across from her."Sit. Talk. And I know your face when you're leaving things out, so save us both the editing."I sit.The splint drags at my shoulder the way it does by this time of the day, and for a second I just look at her.The ponytail. Dad's stubborn jaw. Mom's soft brown eyes with none of Mom's surrender in them.Those eyes are part of what makes her so dangerous.Gentle and inviting as a fawn’s, ringed with long dark 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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