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Dead Wolf
Book: Dead Wolf Read Online Free
Author: Tim O'Rourke
Tags: General Fiction
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Seth wanted me alive,” Potter explained.
    “Then we’re in a whole heap of shit,” I said.
    “What’s new?” Potter said, snapping his broken and swollen fingers back into place.
    “Do you have to do that?” I glared at him.
    “It sounds fucking disgusting.”
    Potter looked at me and opened and closed his fists, the sound of his finger joints popping and cracking sending gooseflesh up my back. “I can see you’re starting to feel better.”
    “I ain’t gonna feel right for another couple of hours or so,” he said, arming away the blood that dripped from what looked like a broken nose.
    “I think they’ve broken every single one of my ribs.”
    “We don’t have a couple of hours to spare,” I told him. “If what you say is true, then I’m guessing that Seth got to Kiera’s father’s house before her and...” I paused, fearing what might have happened to Kiera – what she might have learnt – if Jack and her father...
    “And what?” Potter snapped, fishing around in his trouser pockets and pulling out a crushed packet of cigarettes. He took one from the packet, which was bent over like a limp dick.
    He straightened it out, popped it between his lips, and then lit it. He drew deeply on the cigarette, then coughed, the sound of his broken ribs rattling like a bag of bones beneath his chest.
    “You want to think about quitting,” I told him.
    “And what?” Potter asked again, the flat of his free hand pressed against his ribs.
    “And we don’t know where Kayla and Sam have disappeared to,” I said, pushing the thoughts of what might or might not have happened with Kiera and Seth from my mind. For now, at least. “We can’t leave without them, but we don’t have time to go searching for them, either; not if we’re to go and save Kiera.”
    “Let’s start back at the van,” Potter winced, setting off across the field, a trail of thin, blue smoke ebbing away from the cigarette which dangled from the corner of his bloody mouth. I followed, taking one last look back into the snow, hoping that I might see Kayla and Sam somewhere.
    There was no sign of any track marks back at the van. In fact, the snow was coming down so hard and fast, it had covered any sign of the footprints we would have made earlier when leaving the van to save Potter. I snatched my pipe from the front seat and lit it.
    “Well?” Potter asked me.
    “Well, what?” I snapped at him, not knowing if we should go to Kiera or search for Kayla and Sam.
    “Don’t you see I was right?” Potter said, yanking open the back doors of the police van and reaching inside.
    “Right about what?” I grunted, taking one of the long, black trench coats Potter had taken from the van. I put it on, covering my wings, and pulling the collar up about my throat.
    “Teen-wolf,” Potter said, flicking the butt of his cigarette away with his thumb and forefinger. “Sam has taken Kayla. He waited for you to turn your back, and then he snatched her.
    They’re probably halfway to the Fountain of Souls by now.”
    “He didn’t take her,” I snapped at him, deep inside hoping that Potter was wrong.
    “When are you going to stop putting your trust in these wolves, Sarge,” Potter wheezed, his chest rattling again. “They do nothing but lie and deceive. Believe me, I should know, I’ve...”
    “Screwed enough,” I cut in.
    “Only Eloisa,” Potter came back at me angrily. “And doesn’t that go to prove my point?
    She deceived me so she could go off and kill those children at the Wolf House. Then this so-called school teacher got me believing she was Kiera to delay me from reaching her. The wolves are nothing more than a bunch of murdering scum.
    Isn’t it enough to know that Jack Seth betrayed you in the caves? You had your heart ripped out because of him.”
    “But...” I started.
    “What is it with you and the wolves anyhow?” Potter cut over me, the snow now settling on the shoulders of the black coat he had put on. “It’s
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