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“Right,” Mosa continued. “Kalchik did some purging of his own after he assumed leadership. So he is always picking up stray wolves to replenish his numbers. The more vicious the shifter the better. I know Henric's hired him and his muscle boys for a few dirty jobs. It's all there in the accounting ledger I have to balance every month.”
"What else do you know about him?"
Mosa shrugged. “Other than he has a thing for my mother that he makes disgustingly obvious even when Henric’s around?”
I growled. Mosa hurried on.
“Well, he's big, like Taron or Doone. I've never seen the man up close or heard of any of his lieutenants by name. But Onyx said something about Clover being all up in the Champaign wolves' social media?"
Clover…I wanted to roll my eyes but hadn't forgotten I was too damned old for such nonsense. Nor had I forgotten the soft spot I had developed for the little wolfing.
"Yeah," I agreed. "Clover is pretty clever with all that, problem is she knows it and thinks she's some kind of Field Marshall General."
"I like her," Mosa quickly shot back, her gaze narrowing on me.
"Yeah, whatever," I said, reinforcing with a wave of my hand how little I cared if they were going to be buddies. "How is social media going to help us?”
"She's going to make sure Doone has some current names to drop if he's detected. Of course…" Fear spiked through her as she looked toward the big wolf sitting in the driver's seat. "That'll only last for as long as it takes someone in the leap to contact Kalchik."
A big sigh left Doone.
"What is it, cub?" I asked, adding a little growl to my voice to let the youngling know that, just because he was a damn giant, he wasn’t in charge.
"Can Clover get a photo of this guy?" he asked—without answering my question.
"If one exists online,” Mosa answered.
Doone looked away from the road long enough to nod at her. "Can you have Clover find one, a recent one? More than one is better.”
Another growl rumbled inside me.
"Care to enlighten us?”
"Sure," he said, shifting gears as the road began to climb. "After I have a picture to look at."
CHAPTER20
DOONE
Daylight was almost gonefrom the sky when Clover came through with more intel on Kalchik. Mallory had me pull off the highway into a rest stop where the van and Taron's bike wouldn't be visible from the road. The four of us huddled inside as we began to process what Clover had sent. It was almost as if the she-wolf knew exactly what I needed. Not that she could actually know. The little Field Marshall General was merely thorough. She even had multiple videos of the man.
He didn't move much or say much, just glowered a lot.
"Information overload," Mallory grumbled. "If you get into a situation where you have to know any of this, you're already dead. There are only so many questions or challenges you can sidestep with pure attitude."
I took Mosa's phone back from Mallory, but didn’t return it to her.
"Going to step outside," I warned before sliding the van door open. "I'd appreciate it if the rest of you stayed in the van."
A quiet alarm glowed in the gazes of the two men.
"However devious this Henric is, I'm not an agent or spy sent to Night Falls a month in advance of him planting the video where Mosa would find it."
They stayed put, but the distrust rolling off them didn't abate. Turning to Mosa, I placed my hand over hers for a second.
"They may want to shoot me when I open the door. Try to convince them not to."
With that, I slid the door shut and walked into the trees. I spent another five or ten minutes studying Kalchik's photos and one video in particular. Whatever kind of badass he was, he liked being the birthday boy, receiving gifts that were nothing more than bribes from those below him in his pack's pecking order. He even directed one person to take a video of him opening a present from another pack's leader.
