Page 77 of Wolf Bound

Fisher slid his hand in her pocket, but it was the wrong one.

“Other one.”

Then he pulled out the knife and smiled. “You’re prepared for most anything.”

“Your teeth sure came in handy on that rope.”

“At 1200 pounds per square inch while biting down, our wolf teeth sure can help when we’re in a tight spot.” He quickly removed her handcuffs, and she rubbed her wrists.

“Were you in a lot of pain when I put on your handcuffs?” She was worried about him still when it came to his injured shoulder. She gave him a warm hug and kissed him.

He hugged her back and kissed her willing mouth. “No. I knew I would have a better chance getting out of the situation we were in if I was handcuffed in front and not in the back. I was doing a lot of playacting to get my way.”

“Not a little bit?”

“Oh, if you had pulled my arms back and handcuffed me, sure I would have been in some pain, but I was doing all the groaning for effect. Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m good. Let’s go. We have no phones or a car and we’re miles from civilization, but we need to head in the direction we heard him go and hope we’ll soon find someone that will help us out,” she said, heading out of the house.

“I guess we’ll jog and maybe we can see a vehicle and flag it down. Do you ever commandeer a vehicle in the name of the law?”

“No. We have to make sure we don’t break any laws since we’re truly not a human law enforcement agency.”

“You know, I could run as a wolf and sprint ahead to see if I can locate anyone,” he said, holding her hand as if he was on a date, or maybe because he was so happy she wanted to mate him.

“You’re not running as a wolf. Not with your injured shoulder. But it’s a great idea.” She pulled her hand away from his, gave him a hug, stripped off her clothes, and saw his appreciative smile as he watched her. She laughed at him. “Quit drooling.”

He smiled. “I can’t help it. And I can’t wait for us to become mated wolves.”

“Me either.” She wished they didn’t have to delay it, but of course this business took priority over anything. They needed to capture Oscar and get the boy home to his family.

Fisher bundled up her clothes and then she shifted and took off running. At least both could hear if anyone was in the vicinity with their enhanced hearing. She hoped that the other members of the teams wouldn’t worry about them because for now, they were fine. They just needed to find someone who might be able to help them out.

She ran about a mile in one direction, but not hearing any cars or people or seeing any homes, she ran off in another direction. Still, she couldn’t find anything and ran the opposite way. This was going to be harder than she thought. They were just miles away from anything. She raced back to where Fisher was walking, and he shook his head.

“You look defeated. No luck?”

She shifted. “Nothing. I thought if I could at least find a house, store, gas station, or something, I would run back to you, and we would head in that direction. But there’s nothing out here.” She took her clothes from him and dressed. “Maybe we’ll get lucky, and someone will come our way.”

They started walking again. “I smell my car engine had traveled this way, and I recognize the woods we passed through. See that dead tree over there with one branch sticking out? I was watching for anything that would give us a clue as to how we had gotten here. I was glad he hadn’t blindfolded us.”

“I was doing the same thing. That fir tree with the yellow top? That’s the one I saw on the way here.”

“Good. Then we’re in sync with doing what we need to do. I guesstimated we are about fifteen miles from where he took us at that service station.”

“Me too. And along the way, businesses were situated on either side of the road for the first two miles. After that, traffic and businesses were few and far between. Then farms sprouted up here and there, the farmhouses way off the main road. I saw some silos, and then we turned off on this road and were soon into forested land. No cabins that I saw, just the one he drove us to.”

“I didn’t go far enough to reach any of the farmhouses. No one’s harvesting anything now. But maybe we can find someone out feeding cows or something.”

“The first farmhouse was about ten miles back,” Fisher said. “It’ll take us about four hours to reach it.”

“Unless one of us runs as a wolf. Then it’ll only be an hour.”

“Yeah, but it won’t help us because we can’t talk to a farmer as a wolf. And with me walking as a human, I still wouldn’t be there for another three hours.”

Then they heard a van headed their way and she immediately worried it was the kidnapper.

“He was driving your car, and no one will know it, so I’m sure he wouldn’t ditch it to grab a van and come back for us,” Fisher said.

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