Under the Wolf's Shadow by A. Katie Rose

Author:A. Katie Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: werewolf, shape shifter, warrior brotherhood, prince and princess, warrior chick, werewolf adventure, wolf adventure, wolf fantasy, warrior and princess, werewolf action adventure love story romance forbidden love
Publisher: A. Katie Rose

Tor may be a man, but he still needed his warrior lessons. Arianne and I sat on a rock during the midday break, watching as Yuri and Yuras tutored Tor in the finer arts of swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat. To their endless disgust, I refused them the opportunity to practice their archery aboard their galloping horses. The horses needed their rest, I said. They worked hard enough carrying us over these mountains.

Two days had passed since we reunited with Raine, Tashira and Darkhan and ‘twas like we hadn’t been apart. Raine and I rode side by side, holding hands whenever the terrain permitted, talking and laughing, sharing our adventures during our separation.

Raine hadn’t wanted to ride Tashira, weakened as he was, but Tashira insisted with pinned ears and a cocked hind hoof. “I should’ve kicked your butt before you saved my life,” Tashira snapped. “Now I’m back to toting you around.”

“I can travel as a wolf,” Raine began, but Tashira cut him off with a sharp look.

“You know better than to argue with me.” That acid comment ended the matter.

Thus sans saddle and bridle, Raine sat easily on Tashira’s broad back, his great weight hardly an issue for Tashira. Despite his weakness, the huge Tarbane carried him as easily as he might a small child.

With all the food I insisted Raine eat, he gained back a few pounds. Shardon nagged Tashira into eating as much as he could hold at every possible moment, and he, too, looked sleeker after time. Yet, the shadow in Raine’s eyes never departed, even when he laughed. Though I kept my worry from my voice and expression, it gnawed my gut ceaselessly. He never berated me for following after him, despite his surety I’d die in the great north. Still, the unspoken words hung between us. He fretted I’d die up there, and I fretted I’d be forced to live without him.

“Rygel can’t get enough of healing talk,” Arianne commented as Raine and Rygel sat beside the fire.

“Is that what they’re doing?” I asked, pretending to watch the trio wrestle in the snow. In truth, I watched Raine, my gut churning. What’s wrong with him? Was it this absent girlfriend? Was it his worry over me? What? What caused that shadow and why couldn’t I vanquish it? What was wrong?

Yuri knocked Tor head over heels as Yuras shouted, but Tor rose, well-balanced on his toes. With a grin and a come-hither gesture, he beckoned Yuri closer. That fool obeyed with more arrogance than caution. Tor closed with him, kicked his right leg out from under, and took Yuri down with his own heavy weight on Yuri’s chest. Had he a knife, Yuri’s throat lay at his mercy. Yuras stopped shouting, shocked into silence. Kip danced around Tor’s legs, jaws wide as Warrior Dog licked Yuri’s cheek in commiseration.

“Well done,” I called, grinning.

Laughing, Tor helped a now sullen Yuri up and dusted the powdery snow off his thick fur leathers. Kip danced on his hind legs, barking.

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