JACKSON
After a decent run, Darren had decided to return home but Billy and I weren’t ready to stop. So, we ran through the woods and instinctively moved toward the human town, the complete opposite direction of what I had planned.
And in direct opposition to Council recommendations.
The closer we ran to the human town, the more likely we were to be spotted, hunted, so the Council had rules in place to prevent us from being hurt. They told us the story when we were young of a group of cousins, of three men who’d gone missing over twenty years ago. Most of the pack assumed they were dead. Shot. Perhaps mounted on someone’s wall.
But I didn’t care what the humans had done in the past or would do to me now.
I was in my wolf form and I could feel the strength of the mating bond to Ruby. I
