Awakened from Ice: 1 (Werewolf Sentinels) Read Online Free PDF

some before we head to my apartment. Juneau is a lot bigger and has more people. So that means I’ll have to make a trip into Glennallen in the morning.”
    “You’ll need something to make the trade,” Edensaw said as he reached inside the front of his leather tunic and pulled out a leather pouch that hung around his neck. He pulled it off over his head, then opened it. He removed something before he held out his open hand to show her what he had. “Will this do?”
    Cassidy’s eyes widened as she stared at the nugget of gold resting on the center of Edensaw’s palm. It was the size of a robin’s egg. At over two thousand dollars an ounce, that amount of gold was a lot of money. And nuggets that size were considered rare. Most of the precious metal found was in the form of gold dust.
    Then the others reached inside their tunics and pulled out the same pouch Edensaw had. They also took out nuggets that were the same size. Cassidy figured between them, there was a fortune in gold.
    “Will they make the trade for these?” Edensaw asked.
    She nodded, just about speechless. “It’s way more than I’d need. Even one of them would be too much.”
    “Then take it.” He tried to put it in her hand.
    “No, you hold on to this for now. I can’t walk around with that. I’ll use my credit card to buy the clothes. Once we’re in Juneau, if you still want to, I’ll take you to someone who deals in gold to convert it into money.”
    “Money?” Capac asked.
    “That’s what we use to get the things we need or want. We no longer trade for items we don’t have.”
    “Whatever you think is best,” Edensaw said. He put the gold nugget back inside his pouch and hung it around his neck once more. The other men did the same.
    It seemed as if they were just full of surprises. Cassidy walked over to the tent’s entrance, then looked over her shoulder at the wolf brothers. “I’m hungry. I bet you guys are as well. I’ll go fire up the portable gas barbeque I brought and we can have hamburgers and hot dogs. I brought plenty of them with me.”
    She didn’t wait for their answer before she ducked outside. Cassidy needed the open space. Being with the men again, she felt some of her previous anxiety return. Deciding she might as well start a fire before she cooked the food, she walked over to the fire pit where she’d stacked the firewood she’d brought with her. She heard the men come out of the tent as she put scrunched-up newspaper and kindling in the center of the pit. She then went to the crossover to get the matches. Leaving the hatch open so she could get the portable barbeque out from there after she had the fire started, she returned to the pit where the men stood around it.
    Cassidy squatted, then took out a matchstick from the box she held. She struck it against one of the rocks outlining the fire pit. The men made a sound of exclamation and crowded closer as she held the match to the newspaper. It immediately caught fire. She blew on it to get it really going before she leaned back to watch it move onto the kindling. Once that took as well, Cassidy laid one of the pieces of firewood on top of it.
    She brushed her hands off and stood. Cassidy found all of the men staring at the box of matchsticks she’d placed on the ground near her feet. They all had a look of wonder on their faces. It hit her then that something she took for granted would seem like a miracle to the wolf brothers. Starting a fire during the ice age would have taken a lot more work.
    Cassidy bent and picked up the box of matches before she slid it open. She looked at each of the men. “You can all try one if you want. Just quickly rub the tip against one of the rocks to strike it. Be sure to throw them into the fire and not in the campsite. We don’t need to start a forest fire.”
    The men each took a match, and after Cassidy showed them which end would have the fire, they squatted to rub it against one of the fire pit rocks. They let out