Wolf's Vengeance (After the Crash) by Barone Maddy

Author:Barone, Maddy [Barone, Maddy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Published: 2014-05-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Snake heard the footsteps of someone trying to be very quiet creep up to the barn door behind him. Capturing the sneak had been easy. With one hand he seized the shotgun barrel that poked through the door first, and then swooped around to wrap his arm around the intruder’s neck to put him in a choke hold.

His nose told him what his body already felt. It wasn’t a man sneaking up on them. It was a woman. He looked at his mate and saw joy blaze over her face.

“Mama!” she screamed.

Seeing her joy almost hurt Snake. She never looked that way for him.

“Let me go, you jackass!” the woman demanded.

His arm, already loosening, now fell away from the woman. He kept the shotgun, though. When she rounded on him with a glare, Snake studied her face. His mate said her mother was beautiful, but Snake didn’t see it. He saw a middle-aged woman with a face hardened by life, her mouth set in a bitter twist, and eyes full of sullen rage. Any woman captured and kept by woman stealers could be expected to be hardened. But would she have access to a shotgun?

“Mama!” Mel cried again, leaping toward them.

Snake watched while she threw her arms around her mother. He stepped forward to take her rifle from her then stood back, a weapon in each hand, while his mate did her best to squeeze her mother to death. Mike joined them, wrapping his arms around both women and clutching them hard. Snake wondered if they noticed how their mother’s stiff posture silently rejected their embrace. The older woman was a few inches taller than Mel and few inches shorter than Mike. She made no effort to hug them back. Neither did she struggle. She must be in shock, Snake decided, and who could blame her?

A movement beyond them snapped Snake’s gaze away from the family reunion. The man they followed to this barn took a step forward, but Stone blocked his way.

“Carrie,” the man said with something like resignation in his tone.

Mel and Mike finally stepped back from their mother. Mike’s hands were still occupied with his rifle, but Mel took her mother’s hands in hers. “You’re safe now, Mama. We’ve come to bring you back home to the ranch.”

Mike cleared his throat, probably because his tears had clogged it. “We’ll make sure you’re never in danger ever again. Do you have other children? We were worried…”

“Oh, for fuck’s sake,” his mate’s mother groaned, yanking her hands free from Mel’s grasp and shoving one through her hair. “No! You’re it.”

Snake was struck at the contrast between the woman and her children. Their clothes were ill fitting, worn, and patched, the colors faded from hard use and many washings. Their faces were brown from the sun, their hair ragged and unwashed from their days of travel. Her clothes were new and tailored to fit her like a glove, showing off a still-shapely figure. Her hair was perfectly cut and freshly washed, her face and hands pale and pampered.

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