Juneau to Kenai: An Imp World Novella (Northern Wolves Book 1) by Debra Dunbar

Author:Debra Dunbar [Dunbar, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Brent

Kennedy took care of Leon and fired up the little camp stove to boil water. We’d agreed that a fire wasn’t a good idea—either during the day or the night. If a shifter came looking for us, he’d be able to find us even faster with the smell and light of a campfire.

I grabbed the rope she and Leon had been using for climbing along with a bunch of carabiners and a multi-tool and headed into the brush and wooded area around the camp to set some traps. On the deer tracks I made some snares. They wouldn’t hold a human for long, but at least they’d cause enough commotion that we’d be alerted that someone was coming. In a few other areas I put together a trip wire system that would snap a branch at anyone who sprang the trap. Again, it wouldn’t do more than cause enough noise to let us know about an approach. Done, I headed back to the camp to check on Kennedy.

She was sponging Leon’s face with water. When she saw me she smiled and my heart skittered.

“Hungry? I boiled water for dinner. You have a choice of pad Thai or chili mac.”

“Ooo, fancy gourmet food. Shrimp pad Thai?” I was hungry. All I’d brought with me to eat was a packet of beef jerky.

“Vegetarian.” I wrinkled my nose and she laughed. “Okay, beef chili mac it is.”

She added boiling water to the packets and set them aside as she made instant coffee. I went over to help, enjoying this bit of domestic bliss. I loved that she was outdoorsy. If things worked out between us, we could do all sorts of camping, hiking, and paddling trips together. I added instant creamer to my coffee, envisioning Kennedy in a bikini on my boat as we went fishing. I wasn’t much of a climber, but I’d happily join her exploring the Juneau ice fields and mountains.

When our dinner was done, she dumped the chili mac into tin bowls and handed me a fork. We spread a tarp on top of an old log and sat, chatting as we ate. After we cleaned our dishes, she again went to check on Leon.

“How is he?” I asked.

“I don’t know. You tell me. He’s hot, but you guys seem to run three to four degrees hotter than we do normally. His heart rate is a bit fast, but again that might be normal.”

What wasn’t normal was the smell of necrotic tissue I was getting from the wound. Leon was hanging in there, but his body wasn’t healing like a normal werewolf’s would. “I think it’s up to him at this point. He’ll either fight it off and heal, or whatever was on or in those bullets will win.”

She made a helpless wave of her hand. “What do you guys do when this happens? Is there something I can give him? Anything I can do to help?”

“You’ve already helped.” I walked over and put my arm around her. “You removed the bullet, stitched him up.

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