Chapter 24
All night, the pack tethers held me. Only when the sun rose above the untouched snowscape did my human half waken. Notice something outside the pack.
Adena was gone.
Of course she was. Ravens are diurnal. The last time I ran moon blind, the raven had ridden on my back as if I was a pony. This time, I hadn’t seen her since she’d tipped me off to Jacob’s distress.
We have more to worry about than one lost raven, I told myself, swallowing against the lump that slid halfway down my throat then stuck there. Beside me, three wolves loped along as if they planned to travel forever. Jacob’s wound wasn’t evident, nor was his humanity. I wasn’t much better, the intervening hours having been lost to my lupine self.
Now, though, I dug in virtual heels and was vindicated when our physic
