Claiming a Snow Cop by Serenity Snow

Author:Serenity Snow [Snow, Serenity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Tana pulled to a hard stop in the driveway of her family’s home and smoke billowed from the roof and beyond. She ran for the front door, frantic.

“Tana, no!” Dylan shouted from behind her.

Tana ignored her, racing up the front porch. She tore at the knob and found the door locked. Quickly, she ran around the path of the wraparound to the back. That door was open and her cousin lay face down, naked, his body ravaged by teeth and claw marks.

“Steve.” She turned him over. He was alive, but badly beaten and bruised.

She ran inside to find her aunt slumped against a wall next to her uncle’s limp body. Tana’s heart stopped. If she had been a coyote, she would have howled out her fury right then.

“Montana,” Alisha called in a weak voice. “I tried.”

Tana went to her aunt. Her face was bruised and her clothing torn. Tana’s hands shook as her mind downshifted to the night they’d been attacked and her mother had been killed.

She’d been shot with a tranquilizer. The intent had been to terrorize her while she was helpless to fight back. But the dose hadn’t been strong enough and mother had fought and been killed by a bullet when she wouldn’t go down.

Tana covered her face with her hands as she struggled to wipe the memories away. Her father’s growl and his vow to exact vengeance rang through her ears, a haunting memory.

“I’ll get him,” Dylan said from behind her.

“No, I’ll do it,” she insisted and spurred into action, she bent down to turn her uncle over.

“Tana,” he said weakly. “Get out.”

“Come on, Uncle,” she said and urged him onto his back. He winced, but allowed her to help him to his feet as Dylan helped Alisha from the burning house.

Once outside, Tana got them out into the yard before going back for her cousin. Dylan came to help her rouse him and get him out into the yard. They stood there watching as the house burned, devouring the sanctuary she’d once ran to when she was hurt or lonely.

“I can’t believe this,” Tana growled. “Where is the fire department?”

“He said no one would come,” her uncle said weakly. “He said this was a warning to you. Next time he’d burn the entire orchard and us with it.”

“That bastard,” she said coldly. She couldn’t believe he’d gone after her family without provocation.

“Who said that?” Dylan asked. “Do you know who’s behind this?”

Bryan Summer glanced at her, “You’re Dylan,” he said quietly. “The mate.”

“Uncle, don’t,” Tana said with a shake of her head. “Let’s get you to a hospital.”

“We’ll be fine,” he replied. “I don’t trust them. Just get us out to the line shack and tend us with the first aid kit and then we can get to a hotel.”

“You need a doctor,” Tana insisted.

A howl erupted on the air, and Dylan tipped her head back to answer it with a yip-growl and then a howl.

“It’s Claudia,” Dylan told Tana. “We can get them to our den and our healer.

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