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Tate looked at Camden. “That’ll be why your nose didn’t lead you to them.”
Another scowl from Dimitri. “No, it is because he is not—”
“Wolverine,” Tate finished. “Whatever.” He swept his gaze over everyone. “This changes our plans. I say we invade the mines and rescue Raya and Lori rather than scope out the train station.”
“Makes more sense,” Havana agreed. “Camden was right that they’ll probably choose to do a drive-by shooting, so it’d be hard to catch them anyway.”
Deke’s gaze bounced from wolverine to wolverine. “How did you find the pack?”
Dimitri gave an easy, arrogant shrug. “It was not so hard.”
“Then what took you so long?” Deke challenged, a brow inching up.
Dimitri narrowed his eyes and chucked the rest of the pear in his mouth, core and all. “Do not annoy me, dumb cat. I am too hungry to argue. I would only eat your head, and then you would scream like babe.”
“Without a head, I can’t scream,” Deke calmly pointed out.
“I said, do not annoy me.”
Quinley twisted on her stool to better face the uncles. “When were you last at the compound?”
“A few hours ago,” Isaak told her. “We came straight here when we were sure it was their hidey hole.”
“Did you see the pack take any females inside? They’ve kidnapped my sister and her mate.”
Isaak’s eyes rounded. “Ah, I thought those two looked familiar. They were at your party, yes?” He turned to Sergei. “Did I not say we had met them before? I was so sure, but I could not remember where.”
Quinley grasped her knees tight. “They’re alive?”
“They were,” said Isaak. “I do not know if that is still so.”
“We’ll find out once we’re inside the mines,” Tate piped up. “On that note…”
His simple prompt had everyone readying themselves to leave.
Isaiah kissed Quinley on the temple. “I won’t be long.”
She squeezed his lower arm. “You come back to me.”
The anxiety in her expression was killing both him and his cat. Neither wanted to leave her, but taking her along was not an option. “Nothing could stop me from coming back to you.” His concern was that he wouldn’t be able to return with good news about her loved ones. “Raya and Lori—”
“You are not to blame if something happens to them. I know you’ll do your best to bring them home alive if they’re not already dead.” She choked on the latter word.
Swallowing, he touched his forehead to hers. “I’ll see you soon.”
Watching several shifters file out of the house in the cul-de-sac, Sebastian Vercetti smiled from his position in the woods at the rear of it.
“You were right, Seb,” said his brother Davide beside him. “She told the others.”
“I knew she would.” Feeling his upper lip curl, Sebastian rasped a hand over his buzzcut. “You can always count on a submissive to turn to dominants when panicked. They can’t handle shit themselves.”
Their mother had been the same—a weak, spineless damsel. One who’d cowered from her father, even when the bastard was beating or caning her own sons.
On his left, Wattie noted, “A lot of them are leaving. Why that many?”
Sebastian spared the dark, burly hyena shifter a quick look. “They probably plan to surround the train station and catch us in action.” And they’d fail, because there would be none of the pack there for them to find. Just imagining the bastards scratching their heads and chasing their tails made him smirk.
That smirk widened at the sight of the black-foot waving them off from the porch. “There, Hale’s left her behind.” It had been a given that he would, since a submissive would be no good in a fight. She would be too scared to go along in any case. Probably begged Hale to leave her at home.
