Fox Revenge (Madison Wolves #5) by Robin Roseau Read Free Book Online Page B

more I tagged, the easier it became. Angel almost caught me, but I dashed under Rory, and she ran right into him.
    "You're frozen, Angel," Lara yelled down to her.
    Then Lara and Elisabeth came down the steps, Elisabeth catching me by surprise. She actually managed to grab me, but I bit her paw, squirmed away, and she chased after me. It took me several seconds before I got a lucky turn and she fell behind. She huffed, freezing in that position. Lara laughed.
    "Good game, Fox," she said. "Everyone back off, make her work to tag you. Run off the time on the ones who are frozen."
    I huffed my displeasure. I needed them to bump into each other.
    I made a rush for Alan, growling angrily at him, and suddenly Serena jumped in front of him, protecting her offspring from the crazed fox. I chuffed and tagged her, dancing away. She chuffed back at me, amused at my trick.
    Rory's timer ran off and he ran up on the porch. "You too, Angel, your timer expired with Rory's," Lara yelled.
    I followed after them to the porch and they both leapt after me together. I ducked underneath, tumbling, but managed to tag Angel. I missed Rory on the first try then had to duck away from Kaylee and Thomas, working together. I tapped them both and ran, Rory on my heels.
    "That was your first tag, Angel," Lara called out. "Only one minute."
    I huffed, but I wasn't in a position to argue with Lara.
    I feinted to Lara and she leapt at me. She got her hands on me, but I shifted to human, surprising her, then back to fox, batting her with a paw. Rory tripped over her, and I tagged him.
    Lara laughed. "One minute for me, two for Rory."
    The game shifted back and forth. I got knocked over a lot, yipping more than once, but I managed to tag a lot of people, too. There were a lot of close calls, and I got cornered against the porch once, finding freedom only when Kaylee and Thomas both tried to leap on me. I ducked under both of them, tagged them, and managed to use their surprise to break free.
    When too many people were frozen, Lara ordered everyone to burn up the time. I thought that was a good strategy, one that had a decent chance of winning in the end. It went from me getting chased to me cautiously chasing people. The freeze times slowly grew, which meant I slowly was able to keep more and more of them frozen.
    The game almost ended when I got squished between Lily and Catherine, two of my new students. Two ribs cracked. I managed to tag them at the same time, but tumbled away, yipping. Everyone froze.
    I immediately stopped yipping, climbed to my feet, and assessed.
    "Are you all right?" Lara asked.
    I took a breath, feeling the ribs realign, and healed them. Everyone would have heard it. I shifted to human. "I would like to continue playing, but your call, Alpha."
    "Are you all right?"
    "I am now. I will call that a forfeit if you think it should be, but I would rather keep playing."
    "As soon as you are in fur," Lara said. "We can all move. You take no more than two steps as human."
    I nodded, feinted directly towards her, then took one real step to the left and shifted to fox, Lara on my tail.
    I felt bad for Rory. I started targeting him plus anyone else who had been frozen out. He spent most of the game frozen. So did several others. Most of the wolves were up to three minute freezes. I had only gotten Lara once, although she'd been frozen by contact with frozen wolves a few times.
    Then I managed to get Elisabeth to run into Rory, with both Serena and Karen running into a suddenly-frozen Elisabeth. I chuffed and barked happily.
    "Shit," Lara said. And she shifted to fur.
    I thought that was a mistake. She was more valuable as their general.
    In the end, it was Scarlett who caught me, leaping from the porch as I ran past. There were only four wolves unfrozen at the time, Lara one of them. Scarlett landed right on top of me, her paws landing on the ground to either side of me. She bumped me, wrapping both front and rear paws around my body, and together