Wolf Trinity by Becca Jameson

endangered. Apparently this area was rich with several species of interesting flowers and even what she would have considered weeds.
    As she grew bored, she listened to her men. Perhaps she could contribute to this family unit. She could roll up her sleeves as well as they could and catalogue plants—if she had shoes…and pants. With three of them working, they’d be finished that much quicker each day, and then they could… What the hell are you thinking, Emma?
    She smiled. Maybe she could stay a short while. It was true no one was likely to find her out here in the woods. A human could walk within yards of the cabin and not even notice it.
    She would need a few articles of clothing though. And she truly didn’t want to risk purchasing anything for fear it would raise eyebrows. She might be unrealistically cautious, but she’d been on the run for long enough to know not to take any chances.
    “You’re thinking hard.” Liam had approached, and she’d not even noticed. He sat beside her and toyed with the grass between his knees. “Sorry about earlier.”
    She set a hand on his knee and squeezed. “You have every right to be upset. I just need you to see things from my perspective. I’m endangering your lives, and although it seems to you that I don’t care about you if I could leave you, the opposite is actually true. It’s because of how much it would hurt me to lose you that I can’t stay.”
    He didn’t speak.
    Emma took a deep breath. In a soft voice even she could barely hear, she said, “At least I would know you were alive somewhere, even if I weren’t with you. It would hurt less than thinking I’d inadvertently caused your deaths.”
    Liam wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her tight. “We’ll figure this out. I promise.” He kissed the top of her head, warming her already hot body.
    “I want to help you guys,” she muttered.
    “How’s that?”
    “I can spot a pretty flower too,” she teased. “Couldn’t I take notes and at least join in the work, as long as I’m here following you around like a naked lost puppy?”
    He grinned and tipped her head up as Jaden’s shadow covered them.
    “Did someone say naked? I like naked.” Jaden knelt before the two of them. “We have to go into town tomorrow. Do some laundry, pick up some supplies. We’ll get you more clothes. Unless you enjoy lounging around in our T-shirts. That doesn’t make me sad.”
    Liam turned to Jaden. “She needs shoes and pants. She’s convinced she should help us out with the cataloguing.”
    “We can do that. And go to lunch.” Jaden lit up.
    Emma bit her lip. Lunch? Could she go to a restaurant in public and risk someone seeing her?
    Jaden must have seen her uncertainty. “There’s a SuperMart two towns over. We’ll go there. No one will notice if we buy you some clothes in a huge store. We can drop the laundry off, find a quiet diner for lunch, and pick the clothes back up on our way out of town. No one will see you.”
    She wasn’t sure the idea was sound. It seemed perfectly logical put that way, but she knew she’d be looking over her shoulder everywhere she went.
    I can do this. Give this a few days. Maybe a week. I need the rest. It was tiring being on the run all the time.
    “So, it’s done. Let’s go back and fix dinner.” Liam stood, pulling Emma up with him.
    Minutes later, they’d packed away their towel, notebooks, and clothes and shifted. The run was freeing. Emma always felt the safest in wolf form. Humans were usually leery of wolves and preferred to shy away from them rather than approach. Usually. That was the key word.

Chapter 9
    After dinner and a round of cool showers, all three of them plopped down on the narrow bed exhausted. They’d stayed up late last night and worked hard all day. Well, except Emma. She had no idea why she was so tired. She’d been convalescing for days now. When would she feel rested? When people stop chasing you down to kill you . In other