Southern Shifters: Bear Haven (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Black & White Book 4) by Lissa Matthews

Author:Lissa Matthews [Matthews, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-02-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Luke paced, hidden by the waterfall. He’d lost the scent of the panther in the woods between the Mayor’s hunting cabin and the bluff where Gus had waited. He was frustrated. Bone deep exhausted. And he could use a pretty hearty meal.

It wasn’t the first time and it wouldn’t be the last time that he wondered if he was waiting for something that was never going to happen. Were his instincts really that dull? They couldn’t be. But it was possible he’d pegged the cat wrong.

The other thing bugging him… The other shifters. He’d caught scents here and there. They kept their distance and he kept his, but they were present. He didn’t know who they were or where they’d come from and that unnerved him. He was out there alone and nothing was familiar.

He should’ve stayed on the Mayor, rather than detouring after Roan. There was something about their conversation from the cabin that seemed unfinished and he wanted to follow up.

Roan had trailed Beck just as he said he would and Luke had trailed Roan. But then he’d broken away and headed in the opposite direction, due east. Luke followed. Only now he wasn’t so sure that had been a good idea. It could’ve been a way to isolate him, leaving Beck and Gus vulnerable.

He had no answers, but he needed some and he needed them quickly, or he needed to get the hell out and back to Dandridge.

He stepped out of the shadows and into a sliver of sunlight. It felt good on his fur, soaking into his skin, his face. He exhaled with singular pleasure. There were few things he’d found worthy of gratefulness in life, especially the last year or so, but this simple thing, the sun and its heat, were enough to remind him that just being alive was enough.

Rustling pulled his attention to the side and down the face of the cliff. There was movement in the brush. He wasn’t sure what it was and until he was, remaining relatively unnoticed was the way to go.

The bushes fell still, rustled a few feet ahead, fell still again. A break in the foliage. A small, open spot and the animal came into view. Fuckin’ jackpot.

The panther. Roan.

And it was then that Luke realized he hadn’t been unnoticed at all because the large cat looked up, locked eyes for no longer than a moment before taking off at a dead run.

Shit.

Luke turned tail and ran back through the entrance to the waterfall and carefully maneuvered down the rocks to ground level. He took the same path he’d seen the panther take and every so often caught sight of it.

Up on the cliff, Luke had a general idea of location. His sense of direction was typically spot on, but the twists and turns at the breakneck pace the panther set left him confused and momentarily off center.

Away from roads and civilization, the forests and terrain of the eastern Tennessee mountains looked the same at mile one as it did at mile ten.

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