Chapter Nine
Pierce followed Viviane off the lonely road and down a graveled path. He hadn’t seen any houses or other signs of life for the last ten minutes that they walked. It had been ten minutes spent mostly in silence.
He’d tried to make small talk with Viviane. She offered single-syllable answers. Or she trailed off mid-response. Obviously the encounter with her mother had upset her more than it had him.
Pierce had met a lot of quirky souls on his travels. True, no one’s mother had ever stood in front of him stark n***d. Actually, no. That wasn’t true. There had been that one time in a fae town…
His feet trudged down the lane. If he were honest, he’d admit that the encounter with the Alpha of the Veracruz pack had rattled him. He’d seen n***d female wolves pre and post shift. He’
