Page 58 of Wolfish
“We’ll be there in a minute.” He thought about how proud he was of her. Both their hearts were still beating like crazy, and he thanked God that neither of them had been hit by all the rounds the brothers had fired. He closed the garage door so she could shift in privacy.
“I’m going to see how the brothers got into the house.” Then he hurried into the house while she quickly shifted and began dressing.
The breeze was blowing into the guest room where one of the large windows was broken. Bastards. He would have to replace it tomorrow. He also found the nearly finished skull of the second Jane Doe on the guest bed. He was glad that they hadn’t broken it and it wouldn’t take too long for Selena to finish it.
Selena joined him in the guest room. “Oh, they broke the window. What rotten brothers.”
“Yeah, I agree.”
But then she lovingly picked up the skull she had been working on. “You’re safe. I was worried about you.” Then she said to Daniel, “It’s a good thing the brother I bit had a heavy jacket on, otherwise I would have had to have shoved the brother down and hope it would have knocked him out. You couldn’t take out three at once.”
“Yeah, I needed you.”
She put Jane Doe’s skull back on the bed. “We needed each other.” Her heart was still pounding as she pulled him into an embrace. “Let’s get the statements done. So we can finish off the Halloween night in the way we had intended.”
He smiled at her as he hugged her tightly. “Let’s call our statements in.”
“Even better.”
Epilogue
After saying “I do” at their wedding in the banquet halls at the ski lodge, Selena and Daniel kissed. Everyone in the pack had shown up for the wedding and cheered. In a week, she and Daniel were going on their honeymoon to Alaska. But for now, they were going to dance and have dinner with their guests.
They’d had a lovely turkey dinner for Thanksgiving with Daniel’s brother and sister-in-law a couple of weeks before.
When they sat down to eat after the wedding ceremony, Peter stopped by their table and said, “Congratulations, you two. We have some news about the Jane Does. They were both identified as former lovers of the brothers' father. He killed them both.”
She was glad they’d found the nearly reconstructed head of the second skull in the guest bedroom. She figured the brothers were going to take it with them and bury or destroy it, so she was relieved they hadn’t. She was able to finish it up, take the pictures, and send them to law enforcement.
“Oh, wow. I’m glad they were identified and that the murderer was too,” Selena said. “I guess the reason the brothers went after Daniel was because he was about to discover the other skeleton in the trunk of their stolen car and have the car confiscated. Then, when they didn’t kill him the first time, they came after him to finish the job so he wouldn’t be a witness to the shooting.”
Daniel raised his brows at Peter. “Now? At the wedding?”
Peter smiled. “I knew Selena would want to know right away that the women had been identified.”
“I did. Thanks, Peter.”
Meghan came over and took hold of Peter’s arm. “I told you to wait to tell them.” She smiled at them. “Congratulations, by the way. I’m glad Peter had Daniel approve your business in town.”
“Meghan twisted my arm,” Peter said, laughing.
Meghan and her sisters had all been into matchmaking, as they had suspected.
“Selena wanted to know about the Jane Does she had worked so hard to reconstruct,” Peter said, getting back to the subject at hand.
“Okay, now that she knows, it’s time for her to enjoy her wedding celebration. We’ll talk later.” Meghan dragged Peter away to dance. “Thank you for getting them together.”
“It’s a good thing it worked out the way you ladies wanted.”
Selena sighed. “I’m glad to know that the murdered women’s families could be notified, and they already have the murderer behind bars.”
“Yeah, me too. I’m glad to get some resolution. And I’m glad the brothers are in jail for attempting to murder me, moving the skeletons with an attempt to get rid of them, and threatening you until their trial comes up.”
“I’m really glad that I didn’t turn the one brother and that they’re in jail. On another topic that’s a lot more pleasant, I still can’t believe you booked an Alaskan hiking tour out of White Bear with polar bear shifters who have some shifter-only tours, not that anyone would know they’re shifters but us.”
“Yeah, and that we can actually run as wolves when we’re out in the wilderness. They’d heard we were a wolf-shifter-run town, so they were waffling about what kind of a tour we might like, but since we live here, you own a shop, and I’m a deputy sheriff, they asked me if we liked howling at the moon. I had no idea what they were.”
She laughed. “That must have been an interesting conversation.”
