Clawless (HUNTER MOON ACADEMY #2) by Simone Leigh Martin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Simone Leigh Martin
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Vail
It was Friday night, but instead of an evening of puzzles and pizza, the
Chance house was cold and empty. A single light burned in my bedroom
window to give the illusion of someone being home, but that’s what it was.
An illusion. Because Darkness was away at his new school and Driftwood
had disappeared to the north cabin before I’d arrived. Which left me – Vail
with the questionable surname – alone in a house full of memories and
secrets.
So, naturally, I was up a tree.
But it wasn’t just the ghosts I was avoiding by perching in a ponderosa
pine and freezing my ass off.
I was stalking a wolf.
I’d seen it twice in the week and a half since I’d been back from the
academy. The first had been a few days after I arrived, just a glimmer of
something sleek and fast-moving against the snow. Twilight wasn’t far off,
and it could have just been another patch of sunlight fading into shadow. I’d
told myself if it was an animal, it was most likely a mountain lion, or a large
bobcat on the hunt for a rabbit. But then I’d seen it again last night, way too
close to the Barakat house with its rifles and traps. This time it had turned
and looked at me, as if it knew exactly where I was. Maybe even why I was
sitting up a tree in the freezing cold.
It was definitely a wolf, not a cat. My heart had jumped, that jittery
feeling under my skin nearly knocking me right off the branch. I’d wanted it
to be a particular wolf, of course. One with sunshine fur and ice-blue eyes
under the shifter silver. But when I went to check its prints by the fading
moon, I saw they were too small to belong to the Arras Pack Alpha.
Because that was who Jasper was now. Not the alphason, but the Alpha of
his whole pack. I didn’t know how it had happened, or why that cold man in
the expensive suit had stood aside for his son. But I’d heard Trey and
another guy talking about it the night I left. It hadn’t made much sense to
me, but I’d been desperate for any mention of Jasper. Even while the Wolf
Fire haze rode me hard all the way to the Horn.
I jammed down on that thought and rubbed my hands together, blowing
on my numb fingertips. No more dwelling on that nightmare of the Hunter
Moon Formal. I’d made that pledge to myself after I’d spent the first two
days pacing holes in Driftwood’s floors, trying to work out how it had gone
so wrong.
The academy was behind me. I was where I wanted to be, even if my
chest hurt like it had been stabbed with a blood claw. I just had to find a
way to make peace with my heartache. Although, if I was honest, the
hardest part was living with the shame and regret. At letting down the girls
who’d become my friends. And for what I’d done to Baron and Felix. But
mostly for the alpha who’d left me floating in the pool without a backward
glance.
I squirmed on the branch, almost welcoming the bite of bark through my
jeans. Why should Jasper have looked backwards? In his mind
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