Chapter 16
I could feel both my job...and possibly my skin-protecting secrets...slipping through my fingers no matter how hard I clenched said appendages into fists. Still, I stretched my legs to catch up as the two werewolves ahead of me strode up the steep hillside with complete disregard for darkness.
“I hear you, Allen,” Gunner said, answering a murmur that I hadn’t been able to make out as I lagged, trying to tease out the third shifter’s signature scent. Allen was one of the males who’d ridden in the back seat of the SUV during the drive over, I gathered. Given how easily the trio had teased Gunner then, it was hard to imagine what might have provoked such a cool reaction from his boss now.
Giving up on the puzzle, I broke into a trot and broke out of the thicket just a step behin
