The Bucklin Wolves Next Generation: Revelations Read Free Page A

then.”
    “Why didn’t we just leave in the morning?” she asked.
    “Because we can’t waste any time. Plus, a lot of wild shifters are nocturnal. If we sleep when they sleep, we don’t run the risk of any of them happening upon our camp. Now, why haven’t you packed?”
    “Ninety-three percent of women over-pack for simple overnight trips. This is more than an overnight trip, but it’s one that I’ve never been on. I didn’t want you to laugh at me when I walked out with a giant suitcase to drag into the woods.”
    How sweet. She was worried about what he would think. Another strike against the speech she had made in the conference room. “Fortunately for you, I brought a camping pack. It should be all we need. We’re not going through the woods to find the Four Seasons, I’m sorry to say. This is going to be a tough and rugged trip. I’m not even one hundred percent sure where they are. I have to follow marks and use my nose.”
    “You can smell that well?”
    “Not as a human.”
    He watched as the color drained from her face as she realized exactly what he was implying. She wasn’t going to get to travel with human Seth for most of the trip.
    “I read that shifted wolves have a forty-seven percent chance of their wolf taking over and turning them feral for a brief period. Are you going to run that risk with me there? Mr. Sokolov would never forgive you if you ate me.”
    Seth rolled his eyes and sighed loudly enough that she immediately knew she was being ridiculous. “Maribel, do you actually believe that nonsense?”
    “It was in a book.”
    “Do you believe every book you read?”
    “He had good sources.”
    “What source is better than an actual alpha wolf? Tell me that.”
    She smiled. It was a weak smile but a smile nonetheless. “I know you told me numbers don’t have much bearing when you’re dealing with a shifter.”
    “They have even less meaning when you’re dealing with Seth of Bucklin,” he said with a sardonic smile that was dripping with confidence. He could smell her arousal grow even more as she kept her eyes firmly trained on him. But just as quickly as the moment hit them, it floated away again as Maribel regained control of her senses and shut him out.
    “So, what should I pack?” she asked, standing up. “I wanted to bring my first aid kit. It’s pretty stocked up. I stopped by the only drugstore you have in this town on the way home.”
    “We’ll have many more, plus other stores when the casino is built,” Seth said. Bucklin was in a sad state, but it would reclaim its once-beautiful ways someday. Every abandoned building Seth saw brought a knot to his stomach, but soon it would be over.
    “Well, I got some basic necessities,” she said. “I’m not sure what to do about snakebite, although there’s only a fifteen percent chance that we’ll get bitten by one and can’t suck the venom out. You don’t have any open cuts in your mouth, do you?”
    I’ll suck anything out of you that you want, Seth thought. “No, I don’t. And you don’t have to worry about it. A wolf can’t be poisoned by a simple rattlesnake. We’ll be fine. Nothing will harm you when I’m around. I promised to protect you, remember?”
    She stiffened when he said those words, like they were bringing some repressed memory back to her head. It was brief, but it was enough for Seth to catch it and cock his head in confusion. She had seemed to like his promise before, but now it upset her?
    “I know you did,” she huffed out. “Can we just get on the road soon? I need to grab my flashlight if we’re going to be traveling at night.”
    “No flashlight,” he said, shaking his head.
    “Without a flashlight I’m sixty…”
    “Yes, sixty thousand hundred percent more likely to break your knee or roll your ankle or something. Just trust me, please. We can’t go out there with a flashlight. It could attract predators. We have to use the moonlight to see. If it’s that bad, you can