Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

Author:Patricia Briggs
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy - Epic, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Werewolves, Fantasy fiction, Contemporary, Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, General, Epic, Fantasy - Contemporary
ISBN: 9780441016150
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2008-07-29T03:39:42+00:00

"ANNA?” Charles finished zipping together the sleeping bags.

She didn’t answer him. She’d shed her coat and boots, then climbed back on the rock. She stood barefoot, her wool socks in one hand.

If they’d been somewhere else, he’d have believed that she was enjoying the view, but they were tucked in the trees, where all she could see was more trees. She wasn’t so much looking out as not looking at the sleeping bags and him. As soon as they’d finished eating, she’d started shutting down again.

The temperature had dropped ten degrees when the sun went down, and it was too bloody cold for her to be standing around barefoot and coatless. Werewolf she might be, but frostbite still hurt like sin.

But he wasn’t going to get her into the bags without force or coaxing. He took his own boots off and stuck the socks into his pack. He took out two fresh pairs of socks and stuck them in the bottom of the sleeping bag, so they ’d be warm tomorrow morning.

He’d packed an extra blanket, which he shook out and wrapped around his shoulders. Then he walked over and hopped up on the rock next to her. There wasn’t a lot of room, but he managed to stand shoulder to shoulder with her.

“My cousins courted their women with blankets,” he told her without looking at her. She didn’t say anything, just pulled her toes up and curled them together for warmth.

“It’s called a snagging blanket,” he said. “One of them would go up to the girl he was courting and slowly stretch an arm out—” He held on to the corner of the blanket and put his arm around her shoulders. “And he wrapped the blanket over her. If she didn’t duck away, he’d snag her close.” He tugged, and she took a step sideways until she was tucked under his arm with the blanket snug around them both.

“A snagging blanket?” There was amusement in her voice, but her body was still stiff.

Wolf, he thought, but not completely. If he hadn’t been looking for it, he might not have smelled the distinctive scent of her wolf intermingled with the perfume that was Anna.

“My brother, Samuel, is even smoother with it than I am,” he told her, moving a little more until she stood in front of him, her cold feet on top of his.

She inhaled and let the air out in one long frosty breath, her body softening against him.

“Tell me about mating,” she said.

He tightened his arms around her. “I’m kind of a novice at it myself.”

“You’ve never been mated before?”

“No.” He breathed in her scent and let it sink into him and warm his chest. “I told you some of it. Mostly courting is just like it is with humans. Then they marry and eventually, usually, his wolf accepts her as his mate.”

“What if it never does?”

“Then it doesn’t.” He was not nearly so sanguine as he sounded. “I had all but given up finding a mate when I met you.

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