Page 11 of Song Bird Hearts (Green River Hearts #4)

Wolf

I stare at the little marker on the map, watching as the red dot moves across the states rapidly from Tennessee to Wyoming. Grinning, I zoom in. She’s just crossed over into Wyoming and will likely land soon. That tracker I slipped into her denim jacket paid off.

“Good girl,” I hum under my breath, impressed that there’s more to Valerie Decatur than meets the eye. She’s going to need that resourcefulness if she’s going to make it out of this alive.

Livestreaming. She ousted the most dangerous Foundation in the world because she was livestreaming.

I’d watched the livestream. Hell, I’d been watching as she was recording, saw when she entered the wrong door, knew what she’d walk into.

I didn’t stop her. I just watched eagerly.

I could have stopped all of this before it ever happened.

Instead, I let the chaos unfold.

I’m glad I did. The spark in her eyes at the end of the livestream was worth it. She’d lost it over the last few years, the industry snatching her shine like it does to almost everyone. Valerie Decatur is better than that. She needed something to wake her up.

Nothing like near death and a shadow organization coming after you to accomplish that.

And now she’s running back home to hide. Back home. . . where the Foundation will look for her.

She’s vulnerable, and no matter how tough she is, it will never be enough to stop the Foundation. I straighten, realizing that if I want her to remain alive, that if I want her to be mine, she needs to be protected.

And what better protector than a Wolf?