Blackwood by Pia Foxhall

Author:Pia Foxhall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay, romance, bisexual, lgbt, lgbtqia, glbt, werewolf, shifters, shifter, happy ending, HEA, HFN, wolf, shapeshifter, werewolves, gay romance, bisexual romance, shifter romance, australia, western australia, australian romance, australia romance, werewolf romance, mm, mm romance, gay paranormal romance, gay fiction
Publisher: Pia Foxhall
Published: 2018-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Coll’s eyes kept searching out Braden as a medic tended to shoulder wounds that didn’t really need it. He’d had plenty worse in the past, and in total, he only needed about five stitches.

Hamish was sent off on a stretcher to the nearest hospital, hours away, under police escort. Coll hoped every bump in the road hurt him, but that didn’t satisfy the need to have dealt a killing blow. He was so close and he knew it would have been rightful in the moment. If this was a world where wolves were allowed to operate by wolf law, Hamish would be dead.

You know very well that if this was a world where wolves operated by wolf law, Braden would have been his omega all this time.

Coll winced, and the medic apologised, and Coll made a show of shrugging both shoulders and then sighed as he was scolded for it.

Wolf law might not be the answer, but the way the government was doing it now wasn’t working. Their Department of HSL Services, the wolf shifter administration, was represented almost entirely by humans who didn’t liaise with the community enough, and when they did, they went to the spokespeople who were most often alphas. Some of those alphas really loved the ‘my hormones made me do it’ defence.

Braden was in shock. He seemed chirpy enough, but Coll could smell the fear through Braden’s scent and saw the way he stared off for too long, sometimes having to be prompted back into the conversation. Dazza, who had sent the rest of his Pack off and stuck around to help, kept sending worried looks in Braden’s direction.

Perhaps another alpha would feel threatened, but Coll didn’t care. He hadn’t officially claimed Braden, and Dazza would leave well enough alone anyway. Coll had his triumph of the day, and it didn’t feel much like a triumph at all.

‘Hey, Coll,’ said Officer Justine as she approached him. Hers was a familiar, welcome face, her brown skin picking up the red and blue lights from the ambulance, black eyes tired but bright. ‘Can I talk to you a bit about all of this?’

‘What’s going to happen to Hamish? Exiled again? Come the fuck on, now.’

Justine grimaced, then sighed. She looked over her shoulder at Braden, who was hunched over himself and talking to Officer Andy, a nice enough guy, but Braden seemed intimidated by just about everyone right now. Coll wanted to get him settled down, wanted to check him over personally. The medics said he wasn’t seriously hurt, but Coll knew some injuries went deeper than bone.

‘Hamish will go back to Perth under escort once he’s fixed up, and I don’t think he’ll be bailed before a hearing. But yeah, they get Exiled again, Coll.’

‘In my territory?’ Coll said, trying not to raise his voice and swallowing down the bite of his rage.

‘Likely not,’ Justine said. ‘Oh, I don’t know, Coll. Situations like this are bad. It’s not the first time it’s happened in this jurisdiction.

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