Jacks, Marcy - The Blind Werewolf Assassin [DeWitt's Pack 4] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) by Marcy Jacks Page B

gut. “James asked me here to teach you lot proper tracking.”

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    Chapter Three
    It was a strange walk back, considering they were both naked, and  Adam’s injury meant he couldn’t do a whole lot of walking.
    Getting that bear trap  off his ankle had been more painful than when the thing clamped on, and he felt bad for any bear who had seen its use before he did.
    Luckily, his ankle didn’t look ready to fall off, though it throbbed and burned like a bitch, but supposedly that was a good thing. It meant he was healing already.
    He wished the healing process wasn’t so damn painful. Hopefully  Old Maggie would have some of her herbs with her for the pain.
    To make matters worse, because his walking had been hindering him so badly, Nick, without warning, scooped him up into his arms, like Adam was some kind of damsel or something.
    “Quit complaining. This is faster,” Nick grumbled.
    Adam grumbled back at him. Whether it was faster or not was debatable, considering how carefully Nick was walking through the woods, as though they were on a leisurely stroll or something.
    That wasn’t even Adam’s biggest concern.
    They were both naked, and Nick was carrying Adam the way he used to right before jumping into bed together.
    He made sure to keep from looking Nick in the face, and thankfully, Nick did the same. He didn’t want the other man seeing the red that was, undoubtedly, climbing his neck. Nick used to say that it went all the way to his ears whenever he was embarrassed about something. He didn’t want Nick seeing it now.
    “I didn’t know you were with Phillip’s pack,” Adam said, unable

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    to keep his mouth shut while his naked ex-lover carried him around
    like a bride.
    “Yeah,” Nick said awkwardly. He didn't say anything else.
    One town over. That meant for the last ten years, Adam had never  so much as caught a whiff of Nick, and he’d only been in a  neighboring pack one town over.
    Nick really must not have wanted to see Adam in that whole time  for them to have never so much as seen each other even in passing  during all that time.
    “Well, thanks for saving me. I’d like to walk before we get onto  DeWitt’s land. I don’t want anyone to see you carrying me like this.”
    Nick nodded. “Understood.”
    “And don’t tell anyone we used to be together either. It’s none of
    their business.”
    “Fine.”
    Adam couldn’t take any more of this easy walking. They could have been back so much sooner if Nick would just run, or even walk faster. For a minute Adam thought they were about to go right into a tree until Nick stopped three feet away from it then walked around.
    “What’s wrong with you?” Adam asked, looking up at him again.
    Nick stared straight ahead, not so much as glancing down to acknowledge that Adam had said anything. “What?”
    “You’re walking funny. What’s wrong with your eyes? Are you
    having trouble seeing the trees?”
    Now that he thought about it, they were in a forest, and Nick had  once told him that faraway objects were blurry without his glasses. He  definitely wasn’t wearing them now. Maybe all the trees around him  were blobbed together in his vision, and he couldn’t see them  properly without his glasses.
    Made Adam wonder about James’s decision to bring Nick here to  begin with.
    Nick’s chest heaved with the heavy sigh he made, but he still  wouldn’t look down into Adam’s face.

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    “You’re going to find out about this eventually. I thought you  would’ve known after it was announced I was coming, but clearly you  didn’t.”
    Know what? “They never said who was coming. At least not to me.” He wasn’t about to admit that that could have been due to his
    sulking around ever since James said he would be