Chapter 10
I might have accepted Claw—and, by extension, his pack—as part of my expedition. But that didn’t mean I had to spend the day with them.
“Come over for dinner,” Val suggested a couple of hours later. She’d bearded me in my lair—my home—and was currently giving me the hard sell. “Theta and Harry are going running to stock up on wolf time, but Claw and I have a movie date.”
“I don’t want to be a third wheel....”
“You won’t be a third wheel. Claw and I are brother and sister, not a bicycle.”
Val’s voice was so exasperated that I couldn’t help laughing and accepting her offer at face value. After all, I’d learned about their past in bits and pieces over the past three months, and what they’d told me matched her analysis of the situation.
Claw and Val hadn’t been born siblings.
