Raised by Wolves 1 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Author:Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-06-30T07:50:43+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

BY THE TIME I GOT TO THE DOCK, LAKE WAS ALREADY lounging, her head thrown back and her feet

dangling just above

the surface of her namesake. The way I saw it, I had two choices: deal her in, or lie to her face. Experience—

and my

acquaintance with her trigger finger—told me that she made a better al y than an enemy, and if there were

some things

that were mine and mine alone, to play and replay in my head as I stared at my ceiling each night, there

were others

that I needed a second opinion on. And if that second opinion happened to come from a waitress with no

compunctions

whatsoever about eavesdropping on any and al Weres who passed through her territory, al the better.

“You heard anything about the new wolf?” I asked, plopping down next to her on the dock. Even with my

ribs protesting

so much that I wondered if they’d poked a hole in my lungs, the question made its way easily off my tongue.

Things

were always easy with Lake and me, even though Mr. Mitchel always swore that “doing things the hard

way” was her

middle name, the same way “pack business” could have been mine.

“I heard my dad talking to Ali on the phone,” Lake said, staring out at the water. “Mama Bear was spitting

nails—something about you and this new boy.”

“Chase.” Supplying his name didn’t make me lose track of reality, but when I blinked, I kept my eyes closed

for a fraction

of a second longer than I would have otherwise, waiting for Chase or his wolf to appear, emblazoned on the

inside of my

eyelids. Now that I wasn’t running anymore, it was harder to picture him, harder to feel him on the other

side of the

bond I’d forged.

“Ali didn’t say the boy’s name,” Lake continued, closing her own eyes and tilting her head back, offering her

face up to

the sun. “She just said that he was bad news—for you. That Cal um was hiding something. That you’d end

up hurt.”

At first, I’d assumed that the conversation Lake had overheard was the one that had directly prefaced Ali

dragging me

and the twins off to the Wayfarer, but her words made me ask for a clarification on that point, and it

became apparent

that Ali had been in contact with Mitch long before I’d broken the conditions of my permissions.

Ali’s lack of confidence in my ability to stay out of trouble was astounding. Or it would have been, if I’d

proven her even

the tiniest bit wrong.

“Did Ali or your dad know that the Rabid who attacked Chase was the one who kil ed my family?” I was

fairly certain I

knew the answer to that question, but I had to ask. A week ago, I would have sworn that Cal um couldn’t

have kept

something like that from me, either.

To my relief, the second the word Rabid left my mouth, Lake’s eyes flew open, and she almost fel off the

end of the

dock, supernatural grace and balance the only things that saved her from taking a nosedive I wouldn’t have

been able to

avoid.

“The Rabid who kil ed your … I

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