Storm of Dogs by Hunter Erin

Author:Hunter, Erin [Hunter, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The Pack huddled beneath the trees that were still standing, a short distance from the pond. The leafless branches offered little cover from the sleet. Sunshine shivered, crouching against Lucky’s side.

“Where is the Sun-Dog? It’s already dark, and it can’t be no-sun yet.” She shook her dirty white coat. “Do you think the Growl scared him away? The Sky-Dogs seem so angry these days,” she whined.

Lucky didn’t know what to say. Sunshine was right—the thick pelt of cloud was darkening, and the sleet was growing more persistent.

Bruno sighed. “He wasn’t much of a fighter, but I’m still sorry to see Whine go. Losing any dog makes our Pack weaker.” His sad brown eyes turned to Bella and Sweet. “Do you really think we can overcome the Fierce Dogs, even if we catch them unawares? They’ve been raised to fight—it’s in their blood. We’ve lost strong dogs, like Fiery, and our former Alpha is with them now. How can we hope to beat them?”

Bella was quiet for a moment, then perked up. “Perhaps we aren’t a match for Blade’s Pack right now. But we would be, if we had a few more dogs.”

Snap cocked her head curiously. “Dogs don’t grow on trees, you know. I can’t think of the last time I saw any who weren’t in our Pack and weren’t Fierce Dogs.”

“I can,” said Bella with a proud lash of her tail. “Twitch’s Pack! Remember how we told you that we saw them in the woods? They’re a good group of dogs now that their crazy leader is dead, and they’re strong fighters. If we can persuade them to help us, we’ll have enough dogs between us to overwhelm the Fierce Dogs, particularly as we’ll have the element of surprise.”

Standing beneath a grizzled old tree, Sweet narrowed her eyes. “It isn’t exactly an honorable plan. As I recall, you and your Leashed friends used the same sort of trickery when you attacked this Pack in our old territory, only that time you used foxes to bolster your numbers.”

Bella’s tail drooped, but she held her head high and returned Sweet’s gaze. “That was a stupid mistake, and I would never repeat it. This time we’d have better, more trustworthy allies than foxes.”

“What makes you so sure that those dogs are trustworthy?” asked Daisy. “We don’t really know them, and they were aggressive when Terror was in charge.”

“But he’s not in charge anymore,” Bella pointed out.

Dart trod nervously next to Bruno. “We can trust them. Twitch is their Alpha now, and he used to be one of us. He’s Spring’s litter-brother, after all,” she said with a sad whine. “He’s always been strong and brave. If he agrees to fight alongside us, he won’t let us down.”

Lucky winced, remembering Spring, the floppy-eared dog who had fought the Fierce Dogs so courageously down by the tall, striped building by the Endless Lake—what had the Fierce Dogs called it? The “lighthouse.” He shivered, remembering the terrifying battle in the fog. Spring hadn’t made it.

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