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Eva looked at me. Her gaze slid down my chest and then skittered away, her cheeks flushed. Cole’s jacket barely covered my ass, but it was better than nothing. It was a pain that we still had the fucking tree to take back to the cabin; I wasn’t looking forward to dragging a heavy-as-fuck pine tree while naked.
Maybe Tanner could help. I walked over to the backpack to retrieve my phone.
Me: Got attacked by a rabid mountain lion. It’s dead. Bring me some pants.
Tanner: Is Eva OK?
Me: Yes. Me too, thanks for asking *roll eyes emoji*
Tanner: Be there soon.
I concentrated on collecting the shredded remains of my clothes and stuffing them in the backpack. Eva didn’t say a word. She barely looked at me while staying close to Cole with a fearful expression on her face.
My wolf howled mournfully, unhappy she was now afraid of us. She’ll come around. He didn’t seem convinced, but logic and reason were not his strong points. He was all instinct and emotions, like any animal.
Tanner showed up twenty minutes later, jogging easily into the clearing with a pair of pants slung over his shoulder. He grinned at the sight of me wearing Cole’s jacket with my dick hanging free.
“Good look for you, bro.” I ignored his sniggers and pulled the pants on he’d tossed me.
He glanced at Eva, frowned, and then turned back to me.
“Need a hand with the tree?”
“Yeah. You can be the one that gets covered in pine sap. I’ll carry the bag and the ax.”
“Sure, Cole seems busy playing babysitter.” I ignored the edge in his voice. It was hardly Eva’s fault she was traumatized. Seeing me turn into a wolf and kill a mountain lion was enough to freak out any human.
“We leaving the cat here?”
“No, best not. I better burn it to stop the virus from spreading.”
Thank fuck we were immune to that kind of disease. Most diseases, actually. Otherwise, I’d be in a world of pain right now. The cat had scratched me with its claws, but the wounds were already healing.
“OK, I’ll get the tree and you drag the cat.”
Cole walked ahead with Eva, and we followed him.
“Did she freak out?” Tanner asked in a low voice.
“I wasn’t watching, but she looked like she was in shock when I shifted back.”
I waited for some snarky comment about pathetic humans, but it didn’t come, which was a surprise. Instead, he seemed concerned.
Maybe he did care about her, contrary to the way he’d been behaving since he got back. Who knew? Tanner was a law unto himself. He never discussed his feelings with us. The man was an emotional vault.
Eva
The cabin was a welcome sight. I shivered with cold and my brain whirred at top speed, trying to make sense of what I’d seen. I’d heard of shifters. People spoke of them in hushed voices, a sort of urban legend where I grew up.
I’d never expected to actually meet a shifter. As far as I knew, they lived in their own communities. The internet had little information about them, except to remind us all that shifters were a protected species. Any unprovoked act of violence against someone who identified as a shifter was a hate crime.
It was laughable. After watching Silas take down the mountain lion, we humans had nothing to be concerned about. Silas was magnificent as a wolf. Huge, way larger than a timber wolf, with a thick, glossy dark gray pelt.
No wonder he was so muscular and buff. Shifters usually were, I’d heard. They had a much denser muscle mass. Then I froze. Cole and Tanner were also a similar body type. Were they also shifters?
God. How dumb was I? Of course they were. The three of them were brothers.
Tanner brushed past as he brought the tree in. I jumped away, and he turned and smirked.
