Follow the Sun by Deborah Smith

Author:Deborah Smith [Smith, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780307796721
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2011-08-16T20:00:00+00:00

JAMES GUIDED HER to Grandpa Sam’s old pickup truck. He kept a benevolent silence as he drove along a pleasant, almost suburban street paralleled by a tree-shadowed river. He pointed to it. “Oconaluftee,” he noted.

“Gesundheit.”

He chuckled. They passed the ceremonial grounds, the tribal council house, and a small, neatly kept building that housed the Bureau of Indian Affairs. James cut across the river and turned down another road.

Erica gazed out the passenger window as they passed a large, impressive brick building. A fire truck and other official vehicles sat out front. “How’s Travis?” she asked abruptly. “You don’t say much about him.”

“We don’t have much to say to each other.”

Erica looked at James quickly. His wide, firm mouth had thinned a little, and the pain around his eyes couldn’t be hidden. She’d spent several days watching this man try to ignore the pain in his knee, and so she recognized the different type of pain in him now.

“Anything you want to talk about?” she asked.

“I told his wife I’d set her up in a house in Chicago if she’d divorce Travis and stay away for good.”

“Oh, James,” Erica said sadly.

“I guess I sound like a real SOB.”

“I don’t know. Were you doing it for Travis?”

“Yeah. After she left him the fifth time. Father and Grandfather tracked Travis up to the top of Rattlesnake Mountain—it’s a sacred place in the old legends—and they found him sitting there with a gun in his hands. I don’t know what he would have done to himself if they hadn’t brought him back home. When I heard what almost happened, I knew I couldn’t let my brother get to that point again.”

Erica let her breath out. “You’re a good brother, not an SOB.”

“Don’t ask Travis for an opinion.”

“I doubt that he’s stopped loving you. He sounds like a man who loves with great loyalty.”

“I hope so. It’s a tradition with us wolves.”

Erica turned her face so he couldn’t see her expression. “So once you take a mate, it’s for life, eh?”

“We try to work it out that way.”

“Good plan.” She was silent as he drove out of town and into the steep hills. “Where are we going?”

His voice was wicked. “To a wolf’s cave.”

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