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“I don’t understand. Did the wolf bite you? Why did it run off?” Everest asked.
“No, damn it. I mean, yeah, it knocked me down and ran off. It didn’t bite me.”
“Good thing for you,” Randy said. “Those wolves are big and scary-looking.”
“Don’t you think I know that? Its eyes glowed in the dark. Scared me shitless. Where’s my gun?” Phil asked again.
“We looked, Phil. We thought you were carrying, but you didn’t have a gun on you. Do you know where the goods are?” Everest asked.
“No. I thought we’d find them, but you got here too late to help me look for them.”
“Yeah, like it’s all our damn fault. You’re the one who killed Manning. And, damn it, he hid the damn jewelry,” Everest said.
“It was a case of self-defense. I told you that already. Manning was going to kill me, and I killed him first. So deal with it. Stop whining about it. We just need to get the jewelry and go. But we’ll have to come back before sunrise. Somebody help me up, damn it. We gotta find my gun.”
Kayla finally reached the cabin, but before she could crawl through the wolf door as a human, Nateran though the wolf door, shifted, and unlocked the door for her. She ran into the cabin, rubbing her arms because she was so cold.
Nate quickly locked the door and pulled her into his arms. “I’m so sorry, honey.”
“Oh, you have nothing to be sorry for. I shouldn’t have stayed out so long, but I had to learn what I could about this, and now we know Phil killed Manning for sure. We’ve got to call Peter with all the news.”
“Yeah. I’m right on it.”
“Good. I’m taking a shower to wash off the mud and warm up.”
“Be there in a couple of minutes.” Then Nate called Peter, and once he finished the call, he joined Kayla in the bathroom to shower too. “You know they’ll deny everything that was said tonight in the woods.”
She was so muddy, brown water mixed with the soapsuds as they ran down the drain. “I know. But we both were witnesses to it. We’ll have to testify. Come join me in the shower.”
“Without real evidence, just our witness statements won’t put them behind bars, I’m afraid.”
“Unless Phil’s gun was the same one used to kill Manning,” she said.
Nate joined her in the shower, and she soaped him up too while he pulled her into a slippery hug and kissed her thoroughly. “I sure as hell hope it is. I’m ready to testify against them.”
“Everest’s dad will have a high-powered lawyer to defend Everest and maybe the others involved in this so that none of them turn on each other, don’t you think?” She rubbed her soapy body against Nate’s, so glad he hadn’t been shot, so glad they’d made it safely back to the cabin.
“Right.” He ran her hands over her slippery breasts. “We should be going to bed and making love.”
“We’re going to have to talk to Peter about all this tonight, won’t we?”
“Yeah. But it shouldn’t take long.”
“God, I was so scared Phil might have shot you.”
“I was so afraid he’d see you and kill you. He was too rattled when I ran at him to make his mark.”
“Yeah, but you didn’t know that he would be so shaken and not be able to aim and hit you.”
Nate smiled at her and kissed her nose. “I had to take the risk. If he had moved much closer to the tree trunk where you were hiding, he would have seen you. I couldn’t chance him targeting you.”
Then they heard a knock at the cabin’s front door.
“I figured the police would try to find Phil and his friends first, and we’d have a little longer at”—he smiled and kissed her—“this. I’ll go get the door. Peter will need to gather up the jewelry and take it with him.” Nate quickly rinsed off and left the shower, while Kayla continued rinsing the soap from her hair.
Chapter 24
Nate wanted to kill Phil and all his friends who were involved in the robbery. They owed him a tire. Hell, they owed him his van tires too. And Phil sure as hell needed to pay for shooting at Kayla and him. He’d about had a heart attack when Phil had fired at him.
