Wolf Takes the Lead by Terry Spear

Author:Terry Spear
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2022-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

That morning, the ladies were planning the breakfast while the guys were building the fire. “We’re going to make breakfast burritos, if that’s what everybody wants,” Kate said. “Maddie was so sweet and sent all the ingredients along.” She smiled at Derek.

“Yeah, that would be great,” Derek said. “What can we do to help?”

“We’ve got breakfast if you guys can catch fish for lunch,” Lexi said.

“We’ll sure do that,” Aidan said.

In a large cast-iron pan, Lexi cooked sausage until crisp. Then Lexi and Kate whisked together eggs, salt, and pepper; cooked and then spooned the sausage-and-egg mixture onto the center of each tortilla; and sprinkled cheese on top. Holly and Jade began rolling them up tight and wrapped them in some heavy-duty foil. Twenty minutes later, they were eating the breakfast burritos.

“This is so good,” Ryder said.

“Yeah, I agree,” Derek said. “We’ll have to catch lots of fish for lunch.”

Everyone agreed to that.

After they finished breakfast, cleaned up the dishes and cookware, and banked the campfire, some of them had planned to hike two hours out, which would make a four-hour round trip. They would be climbing around two hundred feet on the hike. Holly and Aidan would only take a short hike for as far as she felt comfortable walking, and Mike and Ryder carried any supplies she needed on the trail. Likewise, Rafe and Jade would hike only as far as Toby could make it.

Once everyone had their backpacks and was ready, they headed out together.

The forest was the largest old-growth redwood forest in the entire world—the forest primeval. Fog created a lush carpet of greenery under the lofty, fairy-tale redwoods, sunshine peeking through the treetops. On this hot, sunny day, it was great for a hike for miles with natural shade. Ferns covered the forest floor, and everything was so lush and green. And on the path, a dense carpet of pine needles cushioned and silenced their footfalls.

This was just beautiful, and it was a completely different area than Kate and Lexi had been in before. She would love to go on hikes throughout the redwoods like this.

While they were hiking, they ran into some humans, and Kate recognized two of the men as the ones they had encountered while they were running as wolves. Two more men were with them, but as soon as the one who had observed them as wolves the last time saw them, he said, “Hey, have you been out here for a while?”

“Since yesterday,” Kate said.

“Have you seen any sign of wolves out here? We saw a whole pack of them—six or seven at least.”

The number of wolves he’d seen was increasing by the day.

“Not me. He did.” The friend who had been with him sounded like he didn’t want anyone to think he was nuts too.

“I’m a wolf biologist,” Kate said, making up a story. “We haven’t seen any signs of wolves out here. And they wouldn’t have been running along a human trail. They would have avoided it and been far off the beaten path.

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