Playing by the Book by Sasha Silsbury

Author:Sasha Silsbury [Silsbury, Sasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

CAL

sea air and crunchy mice

Wolves survive the winter all the time. There is no reason Cal can't. He's in good shape, well fed and has human smarts to go along with his wolfy instincts.

The worst things he'll have to cope with are the cold and having to eat raw rabbit. The protein from the latter is probably good for his growing cub anyway.

He can't go down. That will take him right through Aylewood and far too close to the Winterstoke wolves. If he crosses the mountains, he can come out the other side, and then hitch a lift into the nearest town.

He doesn't know much about the mountain range, but he does know it's part of one of the biggest national parks in the country. There are places here that are nothing but mile after mile of wilderness. It's a multitude of hidden valleys, remote peaks and crags. There'll be somewhere for him to shelter for the worst of it.

The man in him is bright enough to shove the basics into a small bag he can wear around his neck, so that if it comes to it, he'll have the makings for a fire.

But first he needs to concentrate on putting as much ground between him and the cabin as possible. If he's lucky, more snow will fall to mask his flight, but he can't rely on that. He's under no illusions that Luke's pack will come after him one way or the other. His Dad had made it clear to him in their many talks about the subject that an omega can never hide a pregnancy, not after the first week or two.

Cal needs to get far enough away that they lose his scent and are forced to give up. The sky above is a bright and brilliant blue without a cloud in sight, but the weather can change in an instant. He might get lucky and have a little more rain or snow to wash his path away.

Around the little clearing in the cabin, the snow is melting and showing patches of green beneath, but further out among the trees where the sun has not yet reached, it takes Cal almost up to his belly and he has to get out in undignified little hops.

Anyone trying to track him needs simply follow the broken snow. He needs to get up higher to the stone and rocky peaks where the snow is lighter, and he can run through the streams and rivers of melting snow that will lose all trace of his scent.

He's making a mistake. He knows he is. The chances of Luke or his brothers doing the same thing that Reed had done to Ben was almost certainly zero. Almost.

'Almost' is why he's running. It'd be nice to stay and play out the daydream a little longer, but it isn't reality.

Ben is reality. Even if Cal lives to be an old man, he'll never stop dreaming about Ben and how the omega had grieved.

He hopes Ben is okay.

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