Grace watched as their vehicles entered the gates of the pack territory. “Why do we look like we’re entering a war zone?” There were guards with guns and what she’d once assumed were giant attack dogs, but now knew were shifters in their animal forms. This was unreal to her. She felt like she was slipping into another world through some sort of magical quick sands. Unreal and yet too real. “I’m afraid it’s a Cold War right now with a high probability of it becoming very active soon.” Bart informed her. “Why, what do you mean?” Grace couldn’t believe much of anything she’d been told even though it all seemed in an over done production for just her benefit. She wanted to believe, but the investigator in her wanted independent proof to back this all up. “It was my job to keep you away from the police station and away from Hectric so that we can deal it with.” Bart was getting sick of Grace asking the same questions as if she expected a different answer each ti

Grace followed Bart into his apartment. “Can you explain why my apartment is connected to your?” He’d walked into hers while looking for the bathroom. It turned out they’d be sharing it. “We have the visitors’ apartments. Often this is how a visiting alpha, and his entourage would stay. Your space would be for the Beta and mine would be for the Alpha. Across the hall is where his enforcers would stay when they weren’t guarding him.” Bart was unusually free with his information now. Why couldn’t he be like that earlier? “Are you saying these are state rooms? For dignitaries and the like?” Grace wasn’t expecting much more than a bed or sofa somewhere. A state room with a shared bathroom was not what she was expecting. “I guess that would be a valid description. Anyone else would stay in a guest cottage. This is where the highest security is and the safest location in Rob’s territory.” How big was this place to have a building like this, plus cabins? How many

“Hm… You really go for the jugular, don’t you? Fine, I could go for a little something.” Becky couldn’t believe these were words coming from her. Rob was herding her back toward the enormous bed now. Kissing her throat and collarbone, he went straight to taking her clothes off her body. Touching and caressing all of her skin, he revealed. She could feel the bed behind her as he knelt and removed her shoes and pants. Naked, she sat on the bed with him standing between her thighs, removing his own clothes. He took his boots off before he opened his pants and let them drop. Her eyes were glued to his straining shaft when she heard his belt buckle hit the floor and he stepped from his pants, then kicked them out of the way. Rob stood before her in his naked glory. Her face was level with his eager shaft. She couldn’t help herself. She reacted for him and when her fingers caressed the tip of him; he gasped and jerked as her finger wrapped around his glorious throbbin

Hera and Yoric did their part of the job and now were pulled back. Stephan and the others would ensure the crates were delivered by the plane and the pilots would ensure they went wherever NARC wanted them to go. With mage portals, the cargo and pilots would be long gone before the plane hit the side of the isolated mountain. The humans probably would never be the wiser, and who could they complain to? If they complained, they’d have to disclose what they lost and to whom they believed they lost it to. When they were back safely in the motel room, the five team members sat around listening and cringing at the recording of the conversation the founders of the lab had within the hangar before sending it on to their boss. “Where is my wife now? You were supposed to have arrested her and had her here when I arrived.” “Sir, plans didn’t go as expected. There were too many witnesses, and they were questioning us. They have connections to the local polic

Rob listened to the Justiciar speak and once they were done conferring with each other to ensure that everything would be ready for this. It meant Rob had to deal with several things around his territory before the operation started. Becky would be fine here. Safe and sound. If she needed to go to a vet call, she would have a guard go with her. Rob needed to ensure everything was in place and ready to go. It would take hours to personally do this, and there was no way he’d leave this to anyone else. It all got his stamp of approval or it wouldn’t happen. He wasn’t going to chance this being a failure. “What’s going on?” Becky leaned up in bed and looked at Rob through the dim light of a bedside lamp. “Nothing you need to worry about. I need to look in on several things. I don’t know how long I’ll be gone for, but if you need to go deal with any of your vet duties, I’ll leave a number you can call to get a security detail to go with you. It’s the bes