Seal Wolf Hunting (9781402293832) by Terry Spear Read Free Book Online Page A

“I agree he’s proving a point. I didn’t think he would wear it here. The cowboys are giving him a worse time than his SEAL team did.”
    Dusty motioned with his thumb to Paul and shook his head. Dusty was smiling, but it wasn’t a friendly smile.
    â€œYou’re worried about Paul,” Rose said.
    â€œPaul? He can fend for himself just fine, alpha that he is. I just don’t like seeing anyone being picked on.”
    â€œRight. Especially after Paul kissed you yesterday.”
    Lori knew she’d never hear the end of it.
    â€œYou’re not going to tell him that the Cooper brothers were up at the lake cottage, are you?” Rose asked, sounding worried.
    â€œI don’t plan to. What we do is our business. We made a mistake and we handled it. Just like we’d do in any case. Not that Paul or Allan are ever around to help out anyway.”
    Rose chewed on her bottom lip. “Paul won’t think we handled it well, or that we should have allowed the other wolves to see us.”
    â€œThen he should hang around and not be running off all the time.”
    Rose waved at Allan when she caught his eye. “Mom’s made a bargain with your grandma. They won’t outbid each other for Paul or Allan.”
    Lori was afraid that others would. “What if someone else gets them?”
    â€œIf the price goes too high, Mom will go for one of the cheaper prospects. She doesn’t need that much work done around the place. But she wanted to help out the O’Keefes in any way that she could.”
    Lori settled back in her seat, hoping Dusty wouldn’t give them any trouble if her grandma did manage to win Allan or Paul’s services.
    â€œSo…if Emma wins the bid, what is she going to have him do? She just had a bunch of work done on her house. I didn’t think she needed anything else fixed.”
    â€œThat’s what I thought.” Lori wondered again what her grandma was up to. She really couldn’t imagine Emma paying a lot of money just so that a SEAL wolf could spend more time with her granddaughter. He wouldn’t be anyway while he worked on whatever project her grandma came up with.
    Yet, Lori reminded herself her grandma’s animal spirit guide was the fox, because a little red fox had shown her how to watch and wait, how to blend in, and then how to take advantage of a situation. When she was young, Emma was called Little Fox because she was wily and able to work around tricky dilemmas, encouraging action and moving quickly to overcome obstacles.
    She’d been patient for far too long, and Lori wondered if her grandmother had decided to make her move—to make some changes in the pack dynamics. Even though her grandma wasn’t the pack leader, Emma was the eldest member of the pack, and as such, she truly was both adaptable and at times the trickster.

Chapter 4
    When Paul and Allan arrived at Town Hall, they found the parking lot full. Paul had expected to be standing on stage well before the auction began, but all the seats in the town hall were already filled, which was surprising, considering the size of the town. The audience ranged from sweet, silver-haired grandmas to wide-eyed teenage girls and women more his age, like Lori and Rose, all smiles, with a smattering of men. All of them cheered the bachelors on as they walked across the stage and took their places.
    Paul felt like a celebrity and couldn’t help being amused, his cheeks burning a little because he wasn’t used to all this attention. Allan was grinning and enjoying all the interest.
    Paul glanced at his competition.
    The bank loan officer was a little stocky and had glasses propped on the bridge of his nose. He probably could give anyone great financial advice, and he might be a real handyman of sorts. The high school teacher taught carpentry—which meant he would be sought after for that reason alone. The three high school seniors could probably