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I’m almost to the stage of adding my noodles when I hear a knock at the door.
I frown.
Jenni is in Denver for a concert. Max didn’t say he was coming by, but sometimes people do strange things in a small town. I look at the ermine.
He’s still, staring at the door.
“Come in,” I call.
The ermine makes a small hissing sound. I glance down, worried. “Hey little guy, are you…”
I don’t get to finish that statement.
A wolf is standing in my kitchen.
This one is also huge, like the wolf that I saw hiking before Thorne and I started dating. He’s coal-black, which is an unusual color for the wolves around here.
I gulp. I step back, looking for something I can throw at him.
The little ermine is dancing around my feet, hissing and spitting at the wolf. I notice that he’s not blocking the door to the hallway that leads to my bedroom, only the doorway to the front entrance. If I can sneak into the room then I’ll probably be okay, and I can call Parks and Wildlife to come get him.
I eye the ermine.
I have to make sure that he comes too. But I don’t think he’ll let me touch him, and he’s going absolutely bonkers right now in the face of a larger predator…
Movement to my right catches my eye.
Another wolf.
This one is a strange arctic white.
We don’t have arctic wolves in Colorado.
Both wolves are staring pointedly at me. I glance between the two of them, holding my spatula up like it’s some kind of sword.
“Hi, doggies,” I whisper.
The wolves simultaneously lower their heads.
The black one releases a growl, and the white one bares its teeth.
Oh god.
Am I about to be eaten by wolves?
Dimly, I’m kind of annoyed. My death is going to be something on the news, and all the anti-wolf people will point to it as a reason to kick them out of Colorado. They’ll call wolves murderers.
And they won’t be.
But my baby…
I straighten. I have to get out of here. If I throw the boiling pot of soup at one of the wolves, maybe the other will be so distracted that it will let me go?
My hands drift over toward the oven…
Both wolves turn at the same time.
There’s another growl.
