Bite Back Box Set 2 by Mark Henwick

Author:Mark Henwick [Henwick, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912499120
Publisher: Marque
Published: 2019-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 41

An hour later, I stood in the yard in front of Coykuti ranch. I’d never felt so alone. So exposed.

I’d rather perform another ritual in the middle of Denver, stark naked and without Nick to lead the dance, than be standing here.

I’d called ahead. That much I’d insisted on, and Cameron had allowed it. Felix knew I was bringing Cameron here. Knew it was formal—two lieutenants would attend from each side. But as soon as Felix had started questioning what it was all about, Cameron had reached across and ended the call.

“I know what I’m doing,” she’d said.

She might, but I was freaking lost in the complexities of Were behavior. Did she really think it would turn out better if she surprised him? How the hell had she convinced me to help her?

We’d come in the Hill Bitch. I’d had to leave Yelena with Cameron’s truck. Formal Were meetings of this type were restrictive on who could come. The two alphas, each with two lieutenants. And one intermediary, only one, ‘in good standing with both parties’. Whether I would remain in good standing with Felix after this, I wasn’t sure. In fact, I thought I’d expended all my good standing with him today, between Yelena telling him to fuck off and Cameron making me end my call to him before I could warn him what was happening.

I’d slammed the truck door behind me after I got out, and it stayed closed, just as the door to the ranch stayed closed.

I stood halfway between the truck and the ranch, as I’d been told to.

I felt eyes burning into me from both sides.

A cold wind came sliding down the mountain, sighing out beneath the dark shadows of the pine, slipping over the maroon roof of the ranch house and chilling the sweat on my forehead as I waited.

There was a werewolf etiquette to these meetings. The first to move had to be from the guest. The delay was all about showing balls.

I snorted.

At least, that’s what Felix would think it was about until he saw Cameron. Like everyone else, he’d be thinking Cameron was a male alpha until she got out of the truck.

I heard the truck’s doors open behind me, and I sensed rather than heard Cameron’s lieutenants pour themselves out onto the yard.

Rita, in cougar form. Zane in wolf.

The front door of Coykuti opened.

For a second, Ursula stood there, staring at me. Not happy.

She’s not going to change. Felix isn’t going to accept a meeting. She’s just going to tell us to get the hell out of here.

But she was only making a point, making them wait. She shucked her clothes in a few practiced steps and changed.

Bear!

Alphas would normally have two lieutenants in wolf form to meet another alpha.

Cameron had declared her difference. I have a cougar lieutenant.

Felix was playing this like a poker game. I’ll see your cougar and raise you a bear.

Score one for Felix.

I bit my lip.

Ricky followed Ursula onto the porch, frowned at me, shed his clothes and changed.

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