The Alpha’s Rejected Mate (MYTHIC WARS ALPHA #1) by Jennifer Eve EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Billie
I was one hundred feet off the ground. I heaved myself up onto the topmost
branch of the huge cottonwood tree. I clenched my teeth as my head spun,
conscious of the distance beneath me.
Compared to the eighteen-hundred-foot drop at Gunnison Point, this is
nothing.
My adoptive brother, Colt, and I had climbed part way down the canyon
wall a couple of years ago. If I’d done the Point, I reminded myself, I could
do this.
Sweat slicked my forehead, slipping down my spine as I finally emerged on
the tree top. I took a huge inhale of breath, feeling as if it were cleansing me
from the inside out. I used my too-big sweatshirt sleeve to mop my brow.
The top was a hand-me-down from my adoptive sister, Catrina, like most of
my clothes. She was five inches taller and had a much more athletic build,
so most of my clothes swamped me.
With the thick, solid bough supporting me, my knees went wobbly, and I
allowed myself to sink down, resting my aching muscles from the climb. I
sucked in a breath as I looked down at my torn-up legs, scraped from the
branches on the way up.
Great day to wear shorts, Billie.
But a sense of accomplishment caught me up despite my scrapes. I leaned
back against the thick trunk, feeling as if I were in the presence of a friend.
This cottonwood was one of my favorite spots in the whole of Gunnison
National Park. She was a female tree. I knew because of her green flowers.
The male trees produced red catkins. Although the flowers had all vanished
by this time of year, with the approach of spring, the tree was producing
white cottony tufts, its “cotton” helping it to disperse its seeds in the breeze.
The musical trill of a bird reached my ear, and my gaze darted to one of the
lower branches, finding a gorgeous bluebird. It held an insect in its beak. It
was unusual to see a mountain bluebird this far down from the canyon. The
shelves and chasms of rock that soared in buttresses along the Gunnison
River were its favored hunting grounds. The bright bird took off, the
sunshine swallowing it. It likely had hungry mouths waiting to be fed back
in its nest.
Remembering why I’d climbed up to my spot, I anchored myself against the
tree, then picked up the binoculars dangling around my neck. Adjusting
them, I focused on the line of pine and spruce on the outskirts of the
meadow. I craned my neck to see past the triangular leaves of the tree.
I held my breath. A flicker of movement caught my attention from behind
one of the trunks. I traced the black shape of the creature, disappearing into
the forest’s gloom so quickly anyone else would have thought it was a trick
of the light. But I knew the black wolf was one of my adoptive siblings,
Colt or Catrina.
Sure enough, as I fixed the lenses on the area, I spied motion in the grass
again. Two black wolves crouched low, cleverly using the shadows of the
thick, sweeping evergreens to conceal them.
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