It’s #bookqw and our hero won’t tolerate the ‘rage’ of his teammates.
More from Chapter 3:
By the time Daeryn caught up to them, the wolves were rolling in an outright fight, the beta Maraquin for once taking on her headstrong alpha. Leaves, dirt, fur and snarls flew in confusion. He couldn’t tell which was faring better, but he’d take a piece of that action. With a burst of energy, he raced forward and leaped. His nose verified the landing pad was some part of Jac’s anatomy, so he sank his claws and let loose a series of spitting cries and growls, a pissed-off message in any language.
She froze beneath him, then tried to shake him off like water from a puddle. Daeryn clung, the muscles of his smaller European polecat form tight with the effort.
I’ll show you—
The heavy body, and whiff, of a lynx slammed them sideways—their teammate Zar. Daeryn landed with a jolt several feet away.
Just as well. He rolled over and crouched up against a log, gasping.
Apparently, Zar was even angrier than he’d been. The lynx danced a mean streak, pouncing, snarling and biting at the thick fur of Jac’s ruff and hindquarters. She twisted and snapped her heavy jaws at him, but between his agile moves and Maraquin’s worked-up anger, the fight raged on, bloodless, but just barely.
Any longer and the integrity of the team might be damaged. Daeryn shifted and swatted at the nearest furry rump. “Break it up.”
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We’ve had snow which puts more pressure on wildlife to hunt. We’ve seen fox skirting through the neighborhood and taking their more relaxed strolls in the nature center woods. Seems like an appropriate season to read about my rambunctious shifters, and the proper Victorian artist who falls for one of them!
The Unraveling is the first in a serialized novel following the slow-burn courtship of two very different people in a hidden corner of 1868 England. The novel ends on a mild cliffhanger and resumes immediately in Volume Two of The Luminated Threads.
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