Dire Threat by C.P. Rider

Author:C.P. Rider [Rider, C.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: VC Group, LLC
Published: 2022-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

As promised, I left the mage's property around seven a.m.

The second the first rays of orange sunlight speared the sky from behind the horizon, I went back to my truck at the park, where a new group of teenagers was playing a friendly, verging on serious, game of basketball. Football wasn't the only sport Texans were serious about.

It was time to go.

Past time, if I was being honest. I'd told Emmaline I'd leave at first light, and though I was no longer on the porch, I was still in the neighborhood and that felt like I was going back on my word, even if I was off the mage's property.

I tried to stick the keys in the ignition. Something in me fought the action. Two somethings, to be exact. Two furred somethings with vicious claws and attitudes to match.

"Neither of you knows how to drive, so you'd better back off or no more Rudy's BBQ for either of you."

My wolves grumble-growled. They loved lunch at Rudy's.

"We promised her not to be around once the sun came up. Do you want her angry at us for lying?"

The Texas red wolf's responding growl was a boat engine purr compared to the chainsaw-biting-into-steel screech that erupted from the dire wolf's mouth. Thank the gods the windows were rolled up.

"Look, I understand. Her safety is important to me, too." I started the truck. "But a promise is a promise."

My cell phone rang. I let the truck's hands-free feature pick it up.

"Martinez here."

"Alpha, are you still at the mage's house?" Arthur Barrett's voice came over the line.

My second sounded out of breath and energized, and I prayed there wasn't an emergency at the farm, like the time Gert powered down a bottle of my good Texas whiskey and attempted to shift while jumping off the main barn.

It had taken my tía a half-day and six steak dinners to heal her broken ribs, leg, and collarbone, and she'd complained for weeks about how it wasn't her fault because an owl had hooted mid-jump and distracted her wolf.

"I'm just leaving. What's going on?"

"It's the siren. She's in trouble, and Noah is, for lack of a better term, freaking the fuck out. Before he unintentionally shifted, he said his mother was talking to Emmaline on the phone when she was attacked."

"Who are our best trackers?" I threw the truck in drive and hauled ass to the mage's house. "Short list."

"Uh, you, Alpha. After that, I'd say Alpha Gert, and then me."

My mood and tone darkened. Barrett was downplaying his talent to appease me. Some alpha leaders didn't like their people to be better than them at anything and would punish the wolf if they asserted themselves. Barrett's old alpha was one of those.

I was not.

"Never downplay your talents in my pack again, Second. It wastes time." I growled, and he growled back, apologetically. "I'd put you before both Gert and me. Can you think of anyone better than you? Answer honestly."

"No, sir. And sorry. Old habits die hard.

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