All's Fair in Love and Wolf
(Silver Town Wolf)
by Terry Spear
Blurb:
The Silver Town wolf pack has your back
Wolf shifter Sarandon Silver's in trouble with the law, and bounty hunter she-wolf Jenna St. James is determined to bring him in for trial.
Lucky for Sarandon, the entire Silver Town pack is ready to fight for his innocence. But until the case is solved, Jenna's sticking to Sarandon like glue...
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Excerpt
Looking forward to seeing Jake there,
Sarandon climbed into the Suburban and took off. This might be even more fun
than he had planned.
Sarandon headed into the wilderness, and after
a couple of hours, he finally reached the Elk Horn cabin. He parked, got out,
and stretched. Taking a deep breath of the pines and Douglas firs, he embraced
the peace and quiet, the sound of a river flowing nearby, birds twittering in
the trees, and the breeze fluttering the leaves.
Once he’d hauled all his supplies inside, he
started a fire in the fireplace and planned to go for a run, something he
couldn’t do while acting as a tour guide. Not unless he was taking a wolf group
out.
Within minutes, he’d stripped off his clothes
and shifted, then pushed through the wolf door. He dashed through the woods,
exploring and scent-marking, letting any animal in the area know a wolf was on
the prowl and this was his claimed territory.
The sound of a car’s tires crunching on the
private gravel road, heading toward the cabin, caught his attention. He stopped
and listened from the shelter of the trees and brush. There was nothing out
here but wilderness. And the cabins and the land were private property. He
could tell by the engine’s purr that the car wasn’t Jake’s or anyone else’s he
knew in the pack. The car parked, and the engine shut off in the distance.
If the driver were a hunter, Sarandon didn’t
want to be caught in his wolf coat and end up getting shot. Cursing mentally to
himself, he waffled about what to do. Hidden in the undergrowth in the woods,
he could check out the person leaving the car, or he could run back to the
cabin, shift, dress, arm himself with his rifle, and then see who it was and
what he or she was up to.
Sarandon opted for returning to the cabin first
and ditching his wolf coat. That way, he could tell the trespasser to leave.
When he reached the cabin, he dove through the
wolf door, shifted, and rushed to dress. He removed his rifle from the locked
gun cabinet and left the cabin, locking it behind him. Listening for any sign
of where the person was, Sarandon headed down the road to where he’d heard the
car park.
A quarter of a mile from the cabin, he stopped
dead in his tracks. A woman was standing off the road, partially hidden in the
woods, holding a rifle aimed at him. The way she was holding it, she looked
like she knew how to use it. And he’d thought running as a wolf could cause him
trouble!
“Hey, I’m just camping up here at one of my
family’s cabins. I don’t have any intention of hurting you,” Sarandon said,
trying to put the woman at ease, even if she was in the wrong. “This is private
property .”
“Carefully, put the rifle down!” she commanded
in an authoritative, no-nonsense way.
Well, this was bizarre. She was trespassing and pointing a
rifle at him, and yet she was telling him to disarm himself when he belonged
here? He considered her attire: black cargo pants, a black windbreaker, and
boots. She didn’t look like a half-crazed criminal or a hunter either. He
wasn’t afraid of her; he’d be much warier of a man holding a rifle on him than
a woman. He just figured he’d spooked her.
“All right. All right. You don’t have to be
afraid of me.” Being the nice wolf he was, Sarandon set his rifle on the
ground, figuring the woman was going hiking, albeit on private property, and
didn’t know privately owned cabins were located here, though signs were posted
in the area. But the fact that she was carrying a rifle made him suspect
something else might be going on. “I run photo-op tours, hiking, mountain
climbing, and white-water rafting guided tours, one-on-one tours, and group
tours.” He thought if he told her what he did, she would realize he was
employed, not some mountain man living out here in the wilderness alone, and
that his occupation meant he was one of the good guys who liked working with
people. “Whatever customers might be interested in,” he continued.
She
was someone he was interested in. If she was a wolf and would put the weapon
down. Something about her straightforward and confrontational attitude
appealed. He swore it was the wolf in him.
“Sarandon Silver?” she asked, her brow arched.
Learning that she knew his name surprised him.
If she knew who he was, why was she pointing the rifle at him? Then he wondered
if this had something to do with his brothers. Maybe they’d sent her as a
plant, a way to get him to meet a new she-wolf, believing the standard
boy-meets-girl routine wouldn’t cut it with him. Especially since he’d said he
was trying to come up with an idea for a new adventure.
“Yeah, I’m Sarandon Silver. Do you want to tell
me how you know me and why you’re still pointing a weapon at me?” She had to be
his brothers’ idea, but he wondered where she was taking this.
If
this was for real, he didn’t recall anything he’d done that would have
aggravated anyone to the extent that she’d pull a weapon on him. He hadn’t
taken a mate and pissed off her family. He hadn’t lost anyone on one of his
excursions. His dad was the only one who’d ever committed any crimes in the
family, and he’d paid for his sins with his life.
“Come this way, nice and slow,” she said, her
voice firm and resolved.
He frowned at her. She sounded like a cop. He
looked her over again, but her clothes didn’t indicate that. He couldn’t see
what was underneath the jacket, though from the slight bulk underneath the
material, it looked like she might have a sidearm holstered there. She hadn’t
said she was a cop though. Plus, if she were, she wasn’t in her own
jurisdiction. Her car was a silver Ford Expedition, with no indication it was a
cop’s vehicle.
She was a beautiful brunette, her hair cut
short and bouncy, her eyes a crystal-clear blue. If his brothers—and maybe his
cousins—had put her up to this… Well, he didn’t want to appear as though he
couldn’t take a joke. She’d share with them how growly he’d been, and they’d
all have a good laugh over it—at his expense.
“Am I under arrest?” he asked with good humor,
smiling a little. He couldn’t help it. He couldn’t take this seriously.
About The Author
USA Today bestselling author Terry Spear has written over sixty paranormal romances. In 2008, Heart of the Wolf was named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. A retired officer of the U.S. Army Reserves, Terry also creates award-winning teddy bears that have found homes all over the world. She lives in Spring, Texas where she raises two Havanese puppies.
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