In Heat for My Stepbrother novel · Chapter 25 of 32
Chapter 25: The Gathering
"Wendell doesn't have to hold it," I said. "He's Varden blood. He has his own."
"That's right." The yard foreman spat in the snow. "So ask him who else held it. That's all you get out here. The rest I say in front of the Alpha."
Judd drove him up the mountain at three in the morning, zip-tied in the back of the co-op truck.
He came back down at five.
"He's in the cells," he said. "Two down from Ket. She threw her boot at him."
I laughed so hard I had to sit on the mattress.
The next night the full moon came up over the ridge, white and enormous.
The Moon Gathering.
The great hall was full to the walls.
Wolves stood in the doorways and up the stair and three deep on the lawn outside the open doors, breath steaming.
Somebody had strung paper lanterns from the rafters, the old way, a bulb in every one.
Ket stood in the middle of the floor in chains.
Her wrists were cuffed in front of her, and she had her chin up and her rings back on, and she was grinning.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of In Heat for My Stepbrother are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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