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Chapter 71 – The One That Got Taken
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Knotting the Hunter Chapter 71 – The One That Got Taken
DaxHe shifts back the second Mato sets him down on the garage floor, like the wolf shape is a coat he can't get off fast enough.And then he's a person.Naked, filthy, folded into the corner between the workbench and the wall, arms over his head, shaking so hard his teeth are rattling.And I know him.I never met him, but that doesn't matter.I had my nose on his trail for a whole night, months ago, following it across a gas station lot to a fence where it stopped dead under fresh tire rubber, and I never lost it.Some trails you close the file on. That one stayed open in my nose.Cody Brandt.Nineteen.Locked up the station at one in the morning and never made it home.'Oh,' the wolf says, and nothing else.He's got nothing. Neither do I.We looked for this guy.His face was on the community board for weeks.And the whole time he must have been trapped somewhere, being turned into the thing shivering on my garage floor."Cody."He flinches at the name like it hit him."Nobody here i
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 70 – Handle With Care
Dax"I promise."It's out of my mouth before the smart half of me finishes voting.Noah blinks. He came in loaded for a long fight, and the yes got there first."Just like that?""Just like that. Don't make me repeat it, it nearly took my head off on the way out."'Good,' the wolf says, and lies down for a nice little nap, like all our problems are fixed now."Okay," Noah says, quieter than I think he meant it to come out."Okay? I hand over the biggest thing I've got and I get okay?""You get okay tonight."Something crosses his face, fast, there and gone."You get the rest when you keep it."“Not even a little hint about what it is I’ll be getting? Will it leave marks?”He shakes his head at me, then picks the chili back up like we didn't just rearrange my entire future.That's Noah for you. Detonate, then snack.Here's what I'm not telling him.It wasn’t hard.I braced for it to cost me something, because I’m basically promising to put him ahead of the pack.Ahead of everything.An
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 69 – Live Cargo
Dax"Run it again," Finn says."The part where you pull a panicking wolf out of a moving line without killing him or getting killed by the others.""I hit the last one after the line clears the bend. You're between me and the rest of them, making yourself enormous. Reena's on the west bank keeping an eye out in case she’s needed. Mato stays downwind, ready to join the party if it’s clear everything’s going to shit.""And the wolf you're sitting on politely agrees not to chew through his own tongue.""That part's still in development.""Great plan. Airtight.""You're welcome to improve it.""I'm marinating."We're at my kitchen table with a map of the area pulled up on my phone, the quarry road a pale scar through all that green.Finn has eaten all four of the chocolate bars he brought for me.'Finally,' the wolf says, pacing. 'Months of strangers crossing our ground and we get to put one on the dirt. Take the big one at the front.'We're taking the last one. We don’t want all the othe
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 68 – Open Hours
Heidi"You came in daylight," the boy at the door says.Black everything. Silver rings. More eyeliner than I own.He holds the door half open and stares at me without blinking, which I'm trying very hard not to be creeped out by.He must be a vampire too. Maybe he’s Maxim’s lover. He’s not in any of the files."Is that a problem?""Daylight visitors are rare."No inflection at all."Usually it means somebody died.""Nobody died.""Yet," he says, and drifts backward into the dark like he's on casters.Okay then.Inside, Vintage is running its own private midnight.Shades drawn, candles lit, the four o'clock sun reduced to a thin gold line under the door.Last time I came here it was one in the morning and I was shaking.This time I picked the hour, I rehearsed in the car, and I slept eight hours first.On purpose. I need all my wits about me.Maxim Drake is sitting at a table with a book he’s not currently reading.Instead, he's watching me intently.Not looking up simply because I cam
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 67 – Everywhere But
NoahHe pushes into me slow.Like he's got all night and intends to spend it right here, one endless inch at a time, his chest sealed to my back and his arm under my head and my leg hooked over his, and by the time he's all the way in I've forgotten every other way this has ever been done."Breathe," he says into my shoulder."I am breathing.""You're planning to breathe. Different thing."I breathe.He's everywhere.In me, around me, under me, his heartbeat going hard against my spine, and he still doesn't move."Dax.""Mm.""Any decade now."He laughs, low, and I feel it inside me, which is a level of unfair I didn't know existed, and then he starts to move.If you can call it that.A deep, slow grind, barely pulling back, hitting something on every pass that empties my head out through my ears.No pace to brace against.No fight to win.Just him, taking me apart at a crawl."Turn your head," he murmurs.I turn my head and he kisses me over my shoulder, deep and unhurried, and looks
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 66 – Body Language
Dax'Say something,' the wolf demands. 'He's waiting. Open your mouth and be charming, it's the one thing you're good at.'I know he's waiting.I've got a mouth full of nothing.Every true thing I could hand him tonight sits behind a door I either don't own the key to or can't afford to open, and he's standing two feet away having just told me exactly that, politely, with my own heart still thumping under his palm.So I stand in my kitchen, useless, watching the man I want forever with decide what to do about me.He decides.He crosses the two feet and kisses me.Not our usual kind.Not the collision, not the fight over whose kiss it is.Slow. Deliberate.His hand still on my chest, not pushing anymore. Just resting there like it lives on me.I make a sound into his mouth that I'll be hearing about for weeks.He kisses like he's still half arguing with me, and I'd lose this argument daily. Twice on weekends."I said I can't promise forever," he murmurs, barely pulling back, "While the
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 6 – Tells
DaxThe thing's in pieces at our feet and my body's still waiting for round two.I never come down off a kill clean. My blood's still up, ears still straining, every muscle still voting to hit something else.I don’t think it’s a werewolf thing. It’s an adrenaline thing.So when the wolf decides to
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 5 – Carrion
NoahThe wolf hits it like a truck, and the thing barely rocks.Wrong.Two hundred pounds of Alpha at a dead run should fold anything with a spine.This rotten thing takes the hit, slides back a boot-length in the dirt, and swings an arm the size of my leg.The wolf has to wrench sideways midair to
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 4 – Downwind
DaxFor the last hour I've been telling myself I'm only out here to keep the idiot from getting himself killed.It's a good lie.Responsible.Very Alpha.The kind of thing my father would've said with a straight face right before going off and doing exactly what he wanted.Truth is, I caught his tr
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 3 – Sign
NoahThree miles from where you should be standing.The asshole could have at least given me a direction.Fortunately, I’ve learned to trust my instincts.Hunters don’t have any inherent magic, but our senses are more developed than those of ordinary humans.So here I am.Three miles out from the N
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