The Call (The Great North Woods Pack Book 2) by Shawn Underhill

Author:Shawn Underhill [Underhill, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-23T05:00:00+00:00

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Within an hour they were back in the truck. Once Evie had gotten her cousin to let go of the newest conspiracy theory, they all had a good time visiting with the old couple. At the end of the driveway they had to wait for a nearing truck to pass.

“Headed north,” Joseph said. “I’ll bet that bed is packed with camping and hunting gear under that tarp.”

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“Look alive, men,” Lars said from the driver’s seat. They were passing a driveway and entering the last windy section of road before Ludlow.

“Already,” grumbled the man from the passenger seat. His name was Trigs.

In the back seat Hudson and Givens stirred.

“You weren’t with me last time,” Lars said. “It’s only fair that I warn you again.”

“Blah-blah,” mocked Trigs. “We’ve handled it all, from terrorists to rogue grizzlies. We can handle a few cougars.”

“You don’t believe me?” Lars said.

“No,” Hudson said through a yawn.

Lars laughed, thinking, You idiots, I’ll be spending your share of the reward when they kill you. “Do you recall the Milton case from the late nineties? Out west.”

“Only I was with you then,” Trigs said. “Sally and Nancy didn’t join us for another year or two after.”

“What is it?” Givens asked, leaning forward. He was the youngest but most serious of the three protégés.

“A man,” Lars began, “named Joshua Milton had himself a very strange encounter out near Ketchum, Idaho. He was driving home late after a few too many beers. Ignore the cliché. He hit something with his truck in the middle of nowhere. Something large. He assumed it to be a bear.”

“Probably couldn’t tell it apart from one of those mountain women,” Trigs laughed.

“Listen,” said Lars. “Milton got out of his truck thinking he’d hit a brown bear. Like all good country boys he had a rifle in the cab of his truck, and it was a damned good thing he did. The bear wasn’t dead, just injured, and very, very angry. And it wasn’t a bear.”

“What?” asked Givens.

“A wolf is what he claims.”

“No regular wolf,” Trigs mocked. “He claimed it was super wolf.”

“You saw the photos of his truck,” Lars said to Trigs. “Explain that.”

“Go on,” Hudson said from the back seat. Though not as serious as Givens, he was listening closely; he liked to know all the angles of a possible threat.

“Mr. Milton adamantly claimed to find a massive wolf struggling away from the scene. When the animal realized Milton had stepped out of his truck, it tried to attack him, though it had broken legs on its right side from the impact. Milton put six rounds into it to stop it. The sixth shot was to its head as it made its final lunge at him.”

“So where did this wolf end up?” Givens asked.

“No one ever saw it,” Lars said. “Mr. Milton got himself home and passed out for the night. By morning police had found pieces of his truck, and being such a small place, they knew his truck and connected him with the scene.

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