My Enemy in the Water

the time I reached the corridor my hands were steady and my wolf was quiet

a head taller than me and built like a door, dark brown hair cut short, an

will not hand it to anyone but the Alpha. The Alpha is not here. He's gon

he cler

Magnus stepped away from the door and n

ing sheds, where the nets hung in long grey curtains and the smell of tar cover

s smell wro

a strange thing to say t

ere a boy, Alasdair. It used to be pine and cold iron. Now there's something

too. "How

ince you la

ied. I had been lying for six weeks and lyi

weeks,"

ou shifted at the last

you

he gatehouse instead of your rooms. I know Isla has been brewing things that smell like a harbour at low tide." He turned to face me. "And I know

how flat my voice had gone. "M

nd you will not tell anyone when something is wrong." He took a step toward me. "The Alpha is old. When he steps down, the

me the q

ust

er." I held his gaze. "

trong, and somewhere behind the sheds a gull was fighting

rst wolf failed to shift." He stepped back. "If I find out you're lying to me the way he lied,

kno

at the guesthouse. He has a silver pin on his coat, and I saw the seal on the letter. It's from the Commissioner's

d settled, and then I went back to the pack house and f

st his chest like a shield. He told me his name was Peter and that he had be

back until tomorrow. You can stay at the guesthous

fcase. "I was told the l

night won'

d seen before in men who carried Council papers. Fear. No

letter is not just for the Alpha. It's an inspecti

hear the clock in the study, and t

he

the briefcase tighter. "I'm

on the front steps with his boots off and his sleeves rolled up, and he was

e clerk want

The Commissio

rubbing his hand. "The

it s

in. "And you'd better find that woman from the turbine hall before he does, because if Fraser

and I stayed on the steps wit

ant and saw the pipes, and the rust, and the wolv

and in mine, and the way she had said Thursda

, and I began to write down everything I knew about the corrosion, every valve, every date, every mark she had le