Page 40 of Wolf Bound

Demetria, Everett, Kira, and Fisher investigated the room, smelling the three kidnappers’ scents. Even though Demetria and Everett hadn’t smelled their scent before, they could distinguish them from the three men now occupying the room. Once they found nothing, they left the room.

“Do you need the money they gave us?” the redheaded guy asked.

“No. Just be careful the next time you get an offer that sounds too good to be true,” Everett said.

“These guys are armed and dangerous,” Kira said.

All three men looked a little paler after that. Then Kira went to the lobby of the motel and told Calvin that the kidnappers seemed to have left and given up their motel to another three men who weren’t involved in any of this. Normally, something like that wouldn’t be allowed, but the men were tired, and the owners went outside and spoke to them.

“This is highly irregular,” Calvin said. “And I’m a retired highway patrolman, so I know something about this. We’ll let you stay the rest of the night, but if you want to stay longer, you’ll have to pay for the room. Even so, we need you to register your vehicle and your names.”

“Uh, yeah, sure,” the dark-haired guy said.

The three men went with Calvin to the lobby to fill out the paperwork.

“What do you want to do now?” Everett asked Kira.

“Sleep. Unless we have a new lead now, we all need to sleep.” Kira swore everyone looked at Fisher to see if he was going to stay with his brothers or cousins or Kira.

Fisher glanced at Kira.

Kira smiled at him. “No sense in changing any of the arrangements now.” Then everyone said goodnight and dispersed to their rooms. “I’m really glad I have someone staying with me.”

He locked the door. “Just anyone?”

She laughed. “A special someone.”

“I’m sorry we didn’t get them.”

“Yeah, I know. Me too. But I’ve worked on twelve cases since I was hired, and all are so different from each other. So you never know what will happen. The first was solved in a day. I went with my partner to trail a wolf who had been accused of stalking a woman. We caught him at it right away, but before we could take him into custody, he broke into her home, and we arrested him. He’s incarcerated now. In another case, a wolf had been breaking into homes and stealing any valuables he could find. It took two days to track him down and put him in the jaguar facility also.”

“But in this case, it might take a while to find and catch them.”

“Yes.” She climbed into bed, and she patted the mattress. “Let’s get some sleep.”

“I’ll just take a quick shower and then join you.” He was thrilled to be able to stay with her for the rest of the night, not only because he loved being with her but also, she needed someone to help watch her back too.

By the time he left the bathroom and went to the bed, he thought Kira might be asleep, but she was waiting up for him.

Then he removed his towel, and she looked down to check out his package. He smiled.

He pulled on his boxers and climbed into bed. They naturally gravitated toward each other. As some point while they were sound asleep, she stole the bed covers. He could have left the bed and turned up the heat, stripped and shifted into his wolf, or done what he did next. He tucked her against his body and warmed them both up—which was the perfect way to sleep.

When the light was beginning to brighten the room-darkening curtains later that morning, Kira opened her eyes and raised her brows at him, looking a little surprised that he was awake. “Were you cold?” she asked him.

“You stole the covers.”

She smiled. “Sorry about that. I’m sort of a restless sleeper.” But she didn’t appear to be in the least bit sorry and he sure wasn’t.

He hadn’t dated a wolf in a long time and snuggling with her at night had been a real perk to the job. “You weren’t restless once we were together. I think you were cold.”

“So were you.”

“Absolutely. At the time, it seemed like the best option to me.”

Then she got a call on her phone. She groaned. “Here I’m in charge of the case and probably everyone’s awake and waiting on me to make a decision about what to do next.” She pulled away from him, lifted her phone of the bedside table, answered the call, and put it on speaker. “We’re just getting up, Demetria.”

“We just woke too. We thought we could all have breakfast at Dan and Addie Steinacker’s home, since we don’t have any further leads on the whereabouts of the kidnappers, and we don’t have to be watching the motel any longer,” Demetria said.

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