Battling Monsters and Other F'd Up Dates by Kel Carpenter

Author:Kel Carpenter [Carpenter, Kel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kel Carpenter LLC

Line in the Sand

Reapers stretched out along the edge of the werewolf’s territory, the seven Council members standing in a small knot just in front of us. The sun was just about to complete its descent, and the sky was a deep orange with hints of purple creeping in.

Usually I loved this time of day, but all I saw as the sun sank lower in the sky was time running out.

Gerard had escaped last night. There was no one for the pack to turn over.

But only Graves and I knew that.

In the aftermath of Eli’s death, Graves was worried the reapers would hunt Gerard and kill him on sight—and whoever he was with. If that happened, all hell would break loose. So he left that tidbit out when recanting his story of self-defense.

One dead body was enough to handle. While Gerard wasn’t innocent, maybe things would cool down if he were removed from the situation . . .

Or so we hoped.

I let out a heavy sigh.

Beside me, Graves brushed his fingers against my arm. I knew it was his way of checking to see if I was okay. I offered him a tight smile before my eyes drifted across the smattering of houses and trees in front of me.

Unlike most supernaturals who predominantly lived scattered throughout the town, the shifters had an innate need to be surrounded by nature. So their entire community was based at the edge of the city limits and overlapping the beginning of the woods. Totally made sense when you factored in the whole shifting and running in the moonlight thing.

However, instead of being peaceful, this little standoff I was currently a part of was tense as fuck.

As the last few minutes before the deadline ticked by, more and more of the wolves came outside, standing across from us with expressions that ranged from neutral to outright hostile, and the tiny bit of hope I had slowly dwindled. This wouldn’t work if they came out in a show of force. I’d been hoping with him gone that maybe they’d try to play it off . . .

Stupid. I shook my head. Of course this wasn’t going to work.

Things had been bubbling up for a while, like a storm on the horizon. Electricity was in the air, and all we were waiting for was that first drop of rain before the sky opened and we were swept away by the tempest’s fury.

The sun dipped that last inch, and I swallowed.

Time was up.

“Where’s the boy, Hal?” Nocturna demanded.

“Doesn’t waste any time, does she?” I muttered to Graves.

The barest shadow of a smile crossed his lips, and he shook his head once.

The werewolf named Hal took a step closer and lifted his arms in an exaggerated shrug. “Guess he had other plans tonight.”

“Hal,” the female wolf beside Nocturna said with a warning growl. “Don’t do this.”

So the werewolf head wasn’t in on it? I wasn’t sure if that was good or bad, given half her faction was lined up and ready to fight.

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