Lost Vegas Series by Lizzy Ford

Author:Lizzy Ford [Ford, Lizzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lizzy Ford

Chapter Twenty-Four

Arthur dozed off and on, too concerned about being exposed in the forest to sleep for long. When dawn crept through the clouds and past thick layers of branches, he roused himself fully. The bundle of pups in his arms was squirming. He shifted closer to the wolf and unwrapped them, setting the pups down close to their mother’s belly. Despite their closed eyes, they sensed her and climbed over one another and the cloak to nurse.

He watched, smiling, then draped the cloak over the wolf and her babies to keep the morning chill from reaching them. The she-wolf remained silver-white, with the exception of the bloom of black from where he’d placed the pups on her side. He glanced at the wolf’s face then back.

Her eyes were open. She didn’t move, but she watched him.

“Good morning,” he whispered. “Are you well enough to travel?”

Food.

Arthur sighed. “We have none and no weapons to kill game. We will find food today,” he said firmly.

She did not respond, and he wondered if the self-sufficient wolf was irritated with humans who could not hunt for themselves.

Arthur stood with a grimace. His muscles were stiff. The cold morning carried a warm breeze, one he hoped meant the winter was finally ready to give way to spring. Shivering, he crossed to wake Marshall. The Cruise heir was trembling from cold in his sleep.

“Marshall, time to go!” Arthur said and shook his friend awake.

Marshall groaned. He stretched onto his stomach and then sighed loudly. “My stomach is eating itself!”

“Mine, too,” Arthur said. “That is why we need to go …” He tilted his head and paused with a glance at the wolf.

The image in his mind was not the direction he had wanted. Not towards the city, not towards Tiana.

“North,” he said.

“North?” Marshall asked and pushed himself onto his knees. “Is that not the opposite direction of anywhere we want to be?”

“It is.” Arthur looked away from the she-wolf.

Marshall caught his glance and looked between the two. “Whose decision is this?” he asked.

“Hers.”

“Why are we considering going north?”

Safe. Babies, she answered

“We cannot take her with us to the city,” Arthur reasoned. “She cannot travel alone with her babes. We will situate her somewhere safe with her pups, then rescue Tiana and go home.”

If Marshall doubted Arthur’s plan, he did not show it. “We will need your father’s army to rescue her. Our enemies will not free her willingly.”

“If that is the case …” Arthur trailed off, unwilling to promise anything. Neither Marshall nor Tiana could return to Lost Vegas, or the Hanover leader would hurt them both. Arthur did not know how to protect his friend, especially when Marshall was ignorant of the danger. Traveling north would give him time to think.

Marshall shook his head. “If you had told me a month ago I would be at the mercy of a Hanover and a dog, I would have thought you madder than your father.”

Arthur said nothing and hopped in place to keep warm.

The she-wolf had sat up, tugged off the cloak, and was grooming her babies.

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