Fealty of the Bear (Hells Canyon Shifters Book 2) by T. S. Joyce

Author:T. S. Joyce [Joyce, T. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-09T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Yellow police tape kept them from riding straight up to the old sawmill where Trent had been locked in and burned.

Logan exited the jeep as soon as Muriel cut the engine, and she followed him as he held up a yellow strand of caution tape for her. Bron and Samantha trailed close behind and in silence, they picked their way toward the burned building.

“Can you stand over here?” Logan asked, pointing to a grove of trees. “I need you two downwind. Bron, your scent is already all over here. Can you come with me to answer questions?”

Bron followed Logan, and Muriel huddled close to Samantha. Bron had built the sawmill up on a hill at the back of his property, and it was much windier here. The chill bit through Muriel’s thin jacket, and she was grateful she’d decided to wear her snow boots today.

Samantha was staring at the pile of rubble and ash with a horrified look on her face. This is where Trent had died, and the woods suddenly felt haunted. The hair rose on Muriel’s neck and she swatted it to rid herself of that watched feeling. Her skin burned where Logan had bit her last night. She thought he hadn’t broken the skin, but perhaps she’d been wrong.

Logan tracked slowly up to the rubble, then took a wide and winding loop through the woods around it. It had rained since Trent’s death, which would’ve wiped out any strong trails, but when half an hour passed and Logan was still asking infinite questions to Bron as they sifted through the edges of the rubble, Muriel leaned against an old Alder tree beside Samantha.

“It’s weird being here,” Samantha said.

“Yeah, tell me about it. I haven’t been up here since Trent passed.”

“What was he like? I mean, as an adult? I only knew Trent until he was seventeen. I hate to bring him up to Bron because he’s struggling so much with everything, but I miss him, you know? He was one of my best friends growing up, and I missed his last six years.”

Muriel swallowed the hard lump in her throat and squeezed her eyes tightly shut. “That was my fault. If I had been strong enough to say no to the arrangement our alphas put Bron and I into, you wouldn’t have had to leave.”

“No, Muriel. I hope you don’t really think that. Bron said people from his clan were after me, even after his dad died. I am alive today because of what happened.” She slung her arm around Muriel’s shoulders and leaned her head against her. “Everything happened the way it was supposed to happen. And even if it was awful and painful, our destinies will right themselves. You’ll see.”

She wished she could see things the way Samantha did. Her optimistic spirit made her appreciate Bron’s new mate even more. “Do you think it’s weird to be around me?”

“Why would it be?” Samantha asked.

“Because I was married to your mate. Because I was the reason he had to leave you.

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