Hunting Party (Bear Lodge Shifters Book 1) by Kyrii Rayne

Author:Kyrii Rayne [Rayne, Kyrii]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dreamstone Publishing
Published: 2019-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 -

Family Monsters

Jake was back with her. Jake had found out what had happened, opposed his father, searched for her, and found her just in time. He had saved her. He had done everything he could have possibly done to gain her trust back.

But Jake was not human.

As they hurried along, he breaking trail for her and reaching to help her up over a few of the steeper spots, she tried to relax and get used to the idea that her lover was back with her, and doing his best, and that was what mattered.

She tried to remember that even if he had just turned into a giant bear on her, he had done it struggling to save her life.

But even as she did her best to focus on those thoughts, and her feelings for him, the little seed of fear and suspicion the night had planted in her head gave rise to different sorts of thoughts entirely.

He's one of them. He's one of them. These bizarre people who turn into bears. What is he? Where did his people come from? Are they safe?

She looked at Darrin, who hiked along near Mark and talked communications technology, getting stilted, guarded answers in return. He seemed safe enough — almost nerdy, in fact. Kind of harmless, though he was clearly just as competent in his own way as Mark.

But the others. Those men in the pit, that thing that had torn Tori apart... monsters. And so was Jake's father.

She smelled a sharp scent up ahead, and pointed.

“Hey guys, that's a patch of Rocky Mountain Juniper. If these guys can really track us by scent, we should go through there to throw them off.”

Jake looked impressed, and glanced at the others. Darrin smiled ruefully. “Good plan. Smell's gonna overload my nose too, but I'll recover.”

“Do lots of mouth breathing, buddy,” Jake joked thinly.

“Ha, ha.” They plodded through the stand of juniper bushes, which wound up the mountain for perhaps a quarter mile. It was slow, smelly going, and by the end of it Darrin was squinting and coughing, and Jake's eyes were watering.

“God, I hope that really did it,” Anna commented in quiet dismay, and Jake waved her off.

“We'll live, baby. It really will throw the others off, that's what's important.”

She felt guilty, but given that their getting away was the whole point, not much. She wondered about Jake more and more as they plodded along. Had he been born with that strange power? Was he bitten when he joined the Lodge, like some of the werewolf legends? Was he one of many, or were these beings rare? Her head spun with questions.

“So who all are you planning to call once we've got cell service again?”

Mark still sounded very skeptical. He had kept a wary eye on Jake and Darrin since their arrival, and had barely relaxed at all in their presence during the hike. Instead he kept his rifle handy. Which she could understand. If she hadn't known Jake, and cared for him as much as she did, she would have reacted to the two of them with wariness at best.

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