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“Of course I can swim.”
“I mean, can you swim across a river? It’s notthe same as swimming in your rich daddy’s heated swimming pool.”
Nate didn’t want them to drown in the river, damn it. Then he heard someone running behind him, and he saw that it was Peter and CJ.
“Hold up! I’m Sheriff Jorgenson. The two of you stop! You’re both under arrest for breaking and entering a cabin near here.” Peter had his gun out because he knew the two of them could be armed.
Though Nate didn’t believe that Ann was armed, he was certain Randy would be. If Randy had found them, he wouldn’t have been able to force Nate and Kayla to go with them if he didn’t have a gun on him.
That’s when Ann did the unthinkable. She raced into the water to escape but got caught up in the river’s current. Nate couldn’t believe it! He bolted out of the woods and ran into the water after her. He was quickly caught up in the current. He began paddling for her, desperately trying to reach her.
“Holy shit! Shoot the wolf! Shoot the wolf before it kills her,” Randy shouted at Peter, though he didn’t make any move to go after her to protect her himself.
Then Peter and CJ were cuffing him, and Peter read him his rights.
“I’ll sue you for not protecting her from the wolf! I’ll have you all up on charges!”
“Yeah, yeah, save it for the judge,” Peter said.
Nate was busy trying to catch up to Ann, who was sputtering and coughing in the river. Her head went under, and he feared the worst, but then she came up for air again. He heard Tom howl to let his friends know where he was. Good. He had found another one of the housebreakers. And then some distance from there, he heard Darien and Jake howling. Hopefully, they would have the rest of them rounded up soon. Nate had to pull Ann from the water before she drowned herself.
Then he thankfully caught up to the woman, bit into her shirtsleeve, and pulled her into shore. She was screaming and trying to attack him. Luckily, the shirtsleeve hadn’t torn off in his mouth while he pulled her to safety. Immediately, he backed off so she would know he wasn’t going to hurt her and howled to let someone know she was here and needed to be picked up.
She sat on the beach shivering, and he stayed near the water, hoping to stop her if she decided to go swimming again. But the thing was she probably believed he was calling for other wolves to come and get her. He couldn’t help it. He had to alert the others he had found her. It seemed to take forever before Peter and CJ discovered them, wrapped her in an emergency blanket, took her into custody, and walked her back to the cabin.
“Some of the guys took the man in who had beenwith her,” Peter said to Nate, though the woman would believe he was talking to CJ.
Nate had moved into the woods so she wouldn’t see him.
“That was a wolf. Why didn’t you shoot it?” Ann asked, irate.
“Did he save you?”
“He was dragging me to shore to eat me. He was howling for his pack mates to get here.”
The howling part was true.
“He saved your scrawny ass,” CJ said. “And for your information, he wasn’t a wolf. He was a dog that looked like a wolf.”
“He howled! Wolves howl.”
“Some dogs do too,” CJ said.
Then they heard the other wolves howling to say they’d caught everyone and to head back in. That was one nice thing about being wolves and part of a wolf pack; they could all call out to each other that way. It meant Nate’s job was almost done and he could return to the cabin too.
He raced ahead out of Ann’s sight and hurried to reach the cabin. He was ready to return for Kayla. So much for getting a good night’s sleep with his mate!
Once he reached the cabin, he saw Everest and Sarah being loaded into one of the police cars. Nate slipped in through the wolf door without anyone seeing him. As soon as he shifted and began getting dressed in his own clothes, Jake barged inthrough the door, shifted, and started pulling on his clothes.
Darien and Tom came into the house afterward, turned into their human forms, and began dressing.
“We got everyone, I take it.” Nate wanted to close this chapter of their vacation. “I got Randy and his girlfriend Ann.”
“I called out that I’d found one of the men,” Tom said.
“That was Everest,” Nate said.
“Jake and I found the woman,” Darien said. “Did you take a swim, Nate?”
