Emberwood There's no happy endings. [M]

fresh off his courting and hunting trip, colt briggs'd found reno. at last count, that meant five of their gang was around, not to mention miz may.
this was a different locale, and were it not for sadey's scent, colt wouldn't have followed.
but the deeper he pressed, the more the rogue found of blood in the air and the thick reeking slime of wolf saliva not belonging to her.
she'd been in a scrap. 
sadey was washing up at the river when colt emerged onto the scene. "gawdamn, woman. what the hell you been up to?" his swagger said he didn't care. but his shrewd eyes investigated her wounds. and then something like anger or possession took hold of briggs. "foun' reno." he wet his jaws. "who done this to ya, sadey?"