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Chapter 75 – Hot Water
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Knotting the Hunter Chapter 77 – Logistics
Noah"Say the last part again."Dax's voice fills the truck cab, and underneath it there's a low rolling sound that isn't coming from the engine."You heard me the first time.""Say it again anyway. I want to be sure before I lose my mind properly."Driving through the dark with my phone on speaker, I give him the whole conversation we had over dinner, nearly word for word.The growl stops being underneath his voice and just becomes his voice."Your own father put a scope in your hand and pointed it at me.""Yes.""Is he punishing you? Does he know something?""No. Jesus, Dax. If he knew he wouldn’t be circumspect about it."The headlights find the turnoff and I take it."He thinks he's giving me a gift. Career-wise, he is."Silence on the line.Somewhere behind it I can hear him crossing a room, turning, crossing it back."Where are you driving? That's not the sound of your street.""Lillianna's.""It's past midnight.""She'll be up.""Noah."His voice drops, and even furious, even t
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 76 – Eyes On
NoahDax makes it from my bathroom to my kitchen in about four steps, dripping, a towel around his hips that's losing the fight, and snatches the phone off the counter mid-ring."Mato."Watching a naked wet Alpha take a call in my kitchen should not be doing anything for me after the morning we just had.It's doing something for me.Then his face changes, and that's the end of that.Whatever makes a man who texts in single words pick up a phone and use his voice is nothing good.We both knew it before he answered.Dax listens.Says nothing for a long stretch, which with Mato on the other end means the conversation is practically a debate."Since when?"Another silence."Don't be seen. Don't touch them. Call me if they move."He puts the phone down and stares at it like it bit him."Talk," I say."There's a grey pickup parked on the Reserve road. Been there since first light. Two men inside, scanning the fence line with binoculars. One of them got out to stretch his legs and Mato caugh
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 75 – Hot Water
NoahGetting a werewolf out of his jeans while walking backward is a two-man job and both of us are laughing too hard to be much good at it."Foot. Other foot. Dax, lift your...""Your hallway is trying to kill me.""My hallway is fine, you're just enormous.""Thank you.""Wasn't a compliment.""Very much sounded like one."He kicks the jeans somewhere into next week and stands there in my bathroom stark naked, smug, half hard and rising, like a man who has never once lost an argument in his life.Insufferable.Gorgeous.Mine, apparently, and as of this morning there's nothing standing in the room with us.No doors.No careful sentences.Just him.My chest does something dangerous about that, so I hand him the cling film.He looks at the box. Looks at me."Kinky.""It's for the splint, you animal.""Sure it is."He wraps my forearm with great care, though.Takes the box out of my hand and does it neat and snug, cranking the film around the splint with the focus he usually saves for pa
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 74 – Load-Bearing Wall
DaxNoah's breathing changes first.I'm standing in his kitchen with my arms full of hunter, wrung out from the longest night of my life, and against all medical advice my body picks now to notice that he's warm and pressed against every inch of my front.Then his scent shifts.The cedar goes syrupy at the edges, honey creeping in underneath, and my exhaustion packs a bag and leaves without giving notice.'Finally,' the wolf says. 'He watched us open every door we had and he stayed. I want him screaming our name by sunrise.'Sunrise was twenty minutes ago.'Then we're already late.'Noah tips his head back.His eyes have gone dark green and heavy-lidded, and there's a flush crawling up his throat that I want to chase with my tongue."We should sleep," he says."Absolutely.""Big day. War starting. Responsibilities.""Huge day."My hands have moved to his hips without consulting me."Enormous.""So why are you looking at my mouth?""You started it. Your scent's been making promises for
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 73 – The Third Door
Noah"You gonna come in, or should I bring the kitchen out here?"He's standing on my top step with his hand still raised, caught mid-knock like the door cheated.It did.Me and the door have been ready for hours.His clothes are wrong.Same ones as last night, but they've been through something, and there's dried blood down his forearm with no cut under it."Hey," he says."Hey."Neither of us moves.I’ve been up since he left, drank a whole pot of coffee at three like a genius, rehearsed being calm so many times the word stopped meaning anything.Now he's here and my heart starts carrying on like it's got somewhere urgent to be.Even in shambles he's stupidly good to look at.Unhelpful information. Noted anyway."Noah. I..."He stops. Looks like he’s going to start again. Stops before anything comes out.Whatever he practiced in the truck just died on my doormat."Inside."I step back to let him past."This isn't a doorway conversation."He walks into my kitchen and doesn't sit.Doe
Knotting the Hunter Chapter 72 – The Whisper
DaxThe alley door of Vintage opens before my knuckles touch it."You're late," Maxim says, "Which I'll forgive, and you smell like wet dog and gasoline, which I won't.""Lovely to see you too.""It's four in the morning, puppy. Not even creatures of the night enjoy this hour."He steps back to let me in."Your cargo?""In the truck. With someone I trust. You get me first."Something crosses his face at that, quick and entertained."Words some people would pay to hear, but I’m really not interested. I’m afraid you’ll have to settle for your hunter."The wolf has me baring my teeth at the insult to Noah and Maxim chuckles as he turns his back on me nonchalantly.“You really make it too easy.”The bar's empty and half dark, chairs up, one lamp burning at the corner table.There's a pocket watch lying on a green cloth under it, taken apart into about forty pieces, tiny screwdrivers lined up in size order.So that's what two hundred and twenty years of free evenings looks like.Good to kn
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
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
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