Ides of Matt -2014 by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks
Published: 2016-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

4

“Uh, hello? Testing?”

Tess glared at the radio and wondered what idiot was on the freaking Forest Circus frequency. And more amusingly, just what Vic was going to do to them. This early in the season he was probably going to play nice.

“This is dispatch,” Vic always gave someone the benefit of the doubt. That’s why he was Dispatch and Tess was locked away in her steel gray-and-wood tower all summer. She wouldn’t trade places for the world.

“This is Jack, uh, I mean Gray Wolf Summit.”

“In service,” Dispatch prompted.

“Yeah, right. In service.”

“Roger that, welcome aboard, Jack.”

Wait!

Gray Wolf Summit?

Not stopping to think, she grabbed up her radio, “Who the hell is this?”

Vic knew better than to answer.

“You. Gray Wolf. Who is this?”

“This is Gray Wolf Summit, go ahead.”

“Where’s Clarie and Mitch?”

“She’s having a baby. I’m Gray Wolf for the summer.”

Shit! Tess didn’t like it. For the next five months her world was made up of the five closest lookout towers—two of which she couldn’t see from here but had important overlapping sightlines for pinpointing a blaze. Beyond that there was only Dispatch and the occasional firefighting crew.

And all that was just the way she liked it.

Now, with no one asking her, no warning at all, this new guy. It was like coming home on college break only to find out that your best friend had moved away from next door to Texas or some such ridiculous place.

“Uh, welcome.” She did her best not to sound too upset but expected that she didn’t really pull it off.

“Is this Tess Weaver?” the radio voice asked. It sounded amused with itself.

“Cougar Peak to you.” That didn’t come out sounding as funny as she intended.

Laughter came back over the radio. A guy who laughed at her joke rather than assuming she was just plain nasty. Another chunk of city-born bitch shield slid off Tess and tumbled off the tower to shatter on the rocks below.

“Yeah, sorry. This is Tess. You’re Jack…” she left it open as a question.

“That’s Gray Wolf Summit to you. Over and out.”

Well, if that didn’t beat all. A guy with a decent sense of humor.

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