Shadow Wolf (Shadow Pack, #1)

by K. Easton

“No idea. But I intend to find out.”

By getting rid of her?

I have no idea what he’s talking about. But with every second I’m away from Willow Creek, I’m beginning to realize just how naive I am. Just how little I actually know about shifters.

I mean seriously! It’s a shifter thing, shouldn’t she know SOMETHING about rutting and heat? Didn’t she mention that they were waiting for her heat to figure out her wolf?

The people in this house are monsters, and they’re trembling with fear at the sight of Phoenix and Valen.

That should be a big clue…

“Had we known…” Jarek.

Ha! She tried to tell you…

Where the hell am I?

Home, boo.

I’m breaching the treaty.

Seriously, weren’t you headed there anyway? You weren’t thinking about the treaty then. Besides, the alpha himself brought you there.

Nothing obvious, just that same scent of vanilla. Why can’t I smell Phoenix?

Maybe this is the omega house? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Wouldn’t they dump me back across the border, happy to see my carcass rotting?

Yeah, that’s exactly why he killed those wolves before they raped you, because he wanted to see you hurt and or dead… 🙄🙄 Come on, author. She can’t be that dumb about this.

obviously can’t stay here, but I also can’t go home. Not now, not after being gone for so long. My family will just chastise me, punish me for being a petulant brat, for nearly getting myself killed. For ending up in Shadow territory.

So the food obviously did NOT allow you to think clearly… 🙄🙄

At least the horrible pain in my stomach is gone.

They told you you were in heat. She’s so dumb.

“What are you doing here?” I ask, my voice getting swallowed up due to the size of the entryway. He lives here, you idiot.

Well I’m glad she realizes that…

My eyes flick to his face, and Gods, my mouth goes dry as my wolf rolls over onto her back.

Ha!

He killed his last mate. I open my mouth to fire back a snarky retort, but he interrupts me.

She seems to forget he can hear her thoughts…

“I want to leave,” I repeat, louder this time. Phoenix’s only response is his flared nostrils. “As I said before, you can’t leave.”

Girl you are about to have your heat!

Monsters. They’re all monsters.

Ha! It’s so funny that they both think the same hung about each other.

I must’ve been hot last night, because my pajamas are clinging to my sweaty skin. A dull ache pounds in my lower abdomen, and I make a mental note to ask Phoenix for some more of that medicine.

She really is dumb. Everyone keeps talking about her heat and she even deduced at Cain’s cabin that the symptoms she was having was from it, including the fever.

Does he miss me? Our friendship?

Read his texts and find out. 🙄🙄

I could’ve had a happy life with him, could’ve had the big house, nice car, housewife life.

All the things she sad she didn’t want three weeks ago now she’s pining over the loss of it. Typical female.

I shake my head and laugh. “I had no idea hybrids even existed.”

Um, yes she did. She said so when we fast forwarded to present and she was running through the woods before the meeting with Phoenix.

I wrack my brain, remembering how Zade once told me the wolf criminals get sent here. “Is it true that free-range wolves get sent here?”

So maybe that’s who they were calling criminals, wolf hybrids.

“Do you mind if I turn on the air-conditioning?” I ask Valen, and he just shrugs.

Why not just crack the window, breathe in the fresh forest air?

He’s dangerous and unpredictable.

How so?

as if he can smell my arousal,

As if? Seriously? She is truly naive! He’s a freaking wolf! And Alpha wolf at that!

I look back up at Phoenix, and he’s glaring at me.

Never touch a man’s radio! 🤣🤣🤣

“Nora is staying nearby if you need anything. She can help you if something comes up.”

So… why didn’t Nora just bring her and stay inside with her?

running back to the library and choosing what looks to be the smuttiest book I can find.

Probably not a good idea since you’ll be in heat. And shouldn’t she be changing the access codes now?

but the steamy scenes only make the feeling worse.

See. Not helpful.

Okay, calm down, you hoe, I tell her teasingly. Cold air greets me, so I pull on the boots I left by the door and one of the oversized,

So, she’s going out but getting dresses so her wolf won’t be able to run around anyway. 🙄🙄

Phoenix said the forest was gated off, so I don’t need to worry about stumbling upon another nefarious group of wolves. But then, why did he tell me not to go outside?

He literally said that HE might be out there. SMDH.

Why is he fighting?

They’re sparring. Didn’t you see this during training? 🙄🙄🙄

He rejected me, so then why does my wolf want him still?

Go spar with him and find out. You’re not what he thinks you are, but he is noticing that as well.

Turning around, I run like hell.

From a wolf? You turn your back and run, …from a wolf. Lord…

The smell of her is so tantalizing I know instantly that I won’t be able to resist it—especially since she’s running.

Why didn’t anyone smell it before she stepped on the branch though?

“Adrienne, give me the code for the door.” A command, not a question.

She never changed it. She went straight for slutty novels, wine and a bath.

“Are your fangs still out?” I ask, my hand trembling as it hovers over the door handle.

Dummy.

How dirty his face is. He’s not a human right now.

Stupid.

I chuckle, stuck on the first part of his statement. “Wait, you think I’m a virgin?”

Girl, I know you want the bear to poke you, but don’t poke the bear… 🤣🤣

If I were an alpha or a male, it would be easy.”

Well, duh. 😕

You were brought into Willow Creek, despite the treaty.

Yeah, which means Alpha Crawford had to condone it. Still think you were kidnapped though…

I don’t think I ever intentionally set out to come to Shadow territory, but I kind of had no other choice.”

Yeah you did. I saw the map. There were other territories… other packs.

“I’m fine,” he whispers. “I’ll go let you in through the front door.”

Wouldn’t someone be up if it was them? But, it has been an hour though…

Despite everything, we all work together. Kaz holds his shirt against West’s stab wound, Nora cries and holds his hand, and I keep my hand on the collar of the boy who stabbed him.

What happened to everyone else? He said he heard the sound of multiple people rushing forward…

“I woke up Ms. Grady too, but she’s had a bit to drink, so—”

Well, that explains it.

“We were seventeen, and Alpha Thaler was visiting Vancouver. It’s a long story, but basically, the assholes at Peninsula threatened to hurt us if Phoenix didn’t agree to fight them.

If they were already a year or so older than Nora and Phoenix, why were they still at an orphanage at eighteen anyway? They shouldn’t have even been there to threaten them.

Then again, maybe my idea of free-range wolves was wrong.

Yep. You’re confusing it with feral wolves.

She said I shouldn’t pity him, but a small part of me feels like maybe I misjudged him. Maybe we all did. And to think he never asked to be alpha… he was forced to fight that night, forced to catch Thaler’s attention, and therefore had to flee… “I told you, he doesn’t want your pity,” Nora says, smiling.

How can that story even be turned into something to pity someone for? That’s a stretch author. Nothing but respect there. And it sucks how the alpha fight was summed up. Would have liked to know how they even encountered each other again.

Could I stay here? Live here?

And why couldn’t you exactly? I mean, it only you’d get out of your own way.

“But isn’t—” I glance at the door. “Oh. And Phoenix broke the door down.”

Isn’t there also a gate?

Looking at the breakfast dishes, she sighs. “These are going to have to wait.”

The place was three hours away from Phoenix’s house…

“Apparently they don’t read the emails I take the time to send them,” Valen adds, laughing lightly.

That sounds so weird considering they were scented by Kaz, which implies they are coming in wolf form and not a car.