What the Smoke Saw

on the bottom bunk listening to Wren breathe and the stove tick and the creek run,

eady in his yellows, and his hair was still wet,

th me,"

eat

you're not eating it. I've been

ust a couple of sawyers at the far table talking i

before the sun comes up. Dex walked me past the water truck and the equipment shed and

s a proble

a note in his life." Dex kicked a stone into the grass. "Somebody

ink I w

y wolf on this base tha

not what

ked almost pale, and there was a raw edge to him now

it knows you exist, knows I've been near you, and wants me scared

her d

ink and a threat on my gate in three days, and all I know about you is

I was tired and cold and my wolf had been pacing all night, and he was

was three days old. That's why the laundry woman took me. That's why the not

id no

of it. There's no mark in my file, no

e not

on't soften your voice at me. We had a deal

when the mind link op

in the dark. It coul

like my own." His voice dro

made it look lit from inside, and I could see the muscle in his jaw working and the way his hands had

e was

owning in the wind. His hands came to my waist and pulled me in, and my fingers found the back of his neck and his hair, and he smelled of ce

oke i

my hip and his chest going hard, and I stood there wit

a mistake,

you still hold

and. He let go of my hi

ng since the ridge and he doesn't care about the council or the note or t

ur own b

ncil doesn't recognize? The council can void the claim. They can take the Luna's mark and they can declare the Alpha unfit and put a new o

s is po

t in a cold office because I couldn't get one kiss out of my head." He looked at me and his v

ep sayi

u keep not

now and the crew was starting to move around the base, and I stood there i

n her hand and a cup of coffee, and she stopped dead when she saw m

rd. Then she turned her head slowly toward the gate, and

main gatepost, the one every truck and every crew passed through, and the wire was wrapped around it in a neat bright coil, and the w

house, shouting for Dex, and I stood there with my hand on my own wrist an