The Grant Wolves Box Set by Lori Drake

Author:Lori Drake [Drake, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999433348
Publisher: Clockwork Cactus Press
Published: 2019-03-29T22:00:00+00:00

When the door finally gave way, Joey spilled into the room with enough momentum that only her lightning reflexes and dancer’s grace kept her from ending up on the floor. It shouldn’t have taken that much force to bust the door in. She’d kicked at it and slammed herself against it enough times that her shoulder felt bruised. By the time the door flew open, the banging and crashing that had drawn the small crowd in the hall was replaced by Colt’s anguished howl.

The room looked like a tornado had blown through it. Furniture was knocked over. Wall hangings were askew or knocked off entirely. Debris littered the room, and Kate lay at the center of it on her back, unmoving, eyes open. Colt knelt astride her with a stricken look on his puffy face. Blood dripped from a cut over one eye and down his chin from a split lip. They both looked like they’d taken a beating, but from whom? Joey scanned the room for an assailant, but found none.

“Colt, what happened?” Jessica asked, pushing past Joey to reach her packmates.

Ben also rushed past and knelt beside Kate, reaching out to check her neck for a pulse. Her slender neck was red and her open eyes bloodshot. Unblinking. Joey feared the worst even as her eyes slid to Colt.

“Wake up, baby… wake up!” Tears streamed down his puffy face as he gripped Kate’s shoulders, ignoring everyone else.

Ben met Joey’s eyes and shook his head. Colt caught the glance and went into full-on panic mode.

“Help her, man! You’ve got to help her!”

“I’m sorry. There’s nothing I can do. She’s gone,” Ben said with sympathy, and closed Kate’s eyes.

Colt’s anguished wail chilled Joey to the bone. She knew what it was like to lose someone, to have them there one moment and gone the next. Chris had gotten a second chance, but there’d be no second chances for Kate. Joey closed her eyes to blot out the sight, but another rose in its place: the memory of Chris’s lifeless body under a pristine white sheet. She remembered it like it was yesterday, that sense of soul-crushing loss. How much worse would it have been if she’d been in love with him then? A chill went down her spine, but it wasn’t the first time the thought had occurred to her.

Jessica wrapped her arms around Colt while he rocked back and forth over the body of his lover, inconsolable in his grief. The room suddenly felt smaller. Too small. Joey forced herself to take a deep breath and squeezed her eyes shut, refusing to yield to the familiar anxiety that sought a toehold inside her. She would not have a panic attack in front of these people.

“Find Eric, now.”

Joey had no idea who Jessica was talking to, but she heard someone moving swiftly to obey. Brandon, probably. But Jessica’s command did raise a salient question: where was Eric that he hadn’t heard the ruckus?

And, for that matter, where was Chris?

Joey opened her eyes and approached the scene on the floor, focusing on the matter at hand to distract herself.

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