Cowboy Wolf Christmas by Kait Ballenger

Author:Kait Ballenger [Ballenger, Kait]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kait Ballenger LLC
Published: 2022-10-24T18:30:00+00:00

8

They’d forgotten her.

Cheyenne glanced around the mostly empty cabins of Wolf Pack Run, trying desperately to understand. They always left at the same time. Seven in the morning sharp the day before Christmas Eve. Yet, where there should have been life, cheer, movement, the sounds and laughter of the pack preparing for the holiday, the whole of Wolf Pack Run sat nearly empty. The cabins and halls of the main compound were decorated for Christmas, festive, like they were supposed to be, but there were few left to enjoy them. Only a handful of the children, too young to participate, and the elders responsible for their care. No members of the pack her age.

No one but her anyway.

That morning, when she’d woken, alone in the cabin with Silas, she hadn’t been worried, or nervous about making it back. He’d promised her he would get her there in time, despite all odds. She trusted him. Believed. Instead of worrying, she’d stretched out her spent muscles like a cat, long and languid and satisfied. She hadn’t fallen asleep until the early hours not long before sunrise, having stayed awake for the best of reasons long into the night, but the sleep she had gotten had been some of the best in her life.

There was no weighted blanket that could ever compare to the feeling of Silas’ arms around her, the pressure of his broad shoulders, the warmth of his skin. He’d made certain to wake her not long after the sun came up fully. Had even volunteered to stay awake and watch the sunrise to be certain they knew when it was time to go.

He’d woken her softly, gently, far more gentle than he gave himself credit for, stroking his fingers through her hair and watching the way the red strands caught like fire in the morning light. Lying there in his arms, she’d felt happy, sated, content.

More whole than she had in a long time.

But that had all ended the moment they’d stepped out into the cold. The ride back to Wolf Pack Run had been a long one, filled with a heavy silence that seemed to stretch as far as the endless Montana sky. Normally, she would have enjoyed the quiet, but as soon as the truck’s engine rumbled to life the silence that’d descended as soon as they’d left the cabin felt . . . heavy, cold. Final, even. Like whatever waited for them back at Wolf Pack Run neither of them really wanted it. But she’d craved her routine, and he’d promised to have her home on time.

And he did.

It’d taken some time for them to dig their way out of the cabin of course—Silas had needed to pry open a frozen window and shift into his wolf form to dig away the snow that barred the door with his paws. But they’d made it back to Wolf Pack Run with only minutes to spare. Yet still, they’d forgotten her. Left early without her.

Cheyenne stood alone in the

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