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Xavier fielded a few more questions. One or two came from Veronica. In fact, Ronnie was clearly asking leading questions.
“I want to hear what you have to share, Ronnie,” he told his sister. He invited her to take the floor and share what she knew.
“I don’t know anything,” Veronica told the meeting. “I really don’t. I have some theories.”
“Ronnie, please,” Xavier added.
“You want me to say some of what I think, so I will,” Veronica answered. “I would not put any money on this being the work of Run River.”
The room got dead quiet. Xavier wondered if everyone agreed with her or if Veronica had just crushed their working theory.
“Ronnie, just spill the beans. Please,” Xavier told her. The whole room was rapt.
“What you described, and what Sara described the brief few minutes I was able to talk to her,” Veronica told the meeting. “Don’t you think it sounds familiar? Too familiar.”
Everybody sat quietly and stared at Veronica.
“I think they’re rogues. A group of rogues. This pack I used to run with had a similar situation. A pack of rogues turned out to be the problem. Everything I’ve been hearing tonight sounds like it’s the same guys.”
“How did you guys handle them?” someone asked across the room.
“We had to deal with them several times,” Veronica answered. She fiddled with her blouse cuffs when she said this, which let Xavier know she was nervous. “We dealt with them using blunt force. That’s really the only way to get to this group if they are who I think.”
Several more pack members shared their thoughts on Veronica’s theory.
“We are in agreement then,” Xavier added. “A group of rogues.”
Next up was Carlos, who took suggestions and ideas on how to track the rest of them down.
“What I would like to see,” Xavier added. “I would like to see these rogues interrogated. I say this because I doubt my ability to hold back. But some of you can hold back enough that we can get information out of them.”
“These rogues, they’re morons,” Veronica added. “You won’t get anything out of them of value. All they want is chaos and any power they can get from it.”
“I want to know why they wanted my mate. It takes a really disturbed personality to target a carrying mother. What were they hoping to gain?”
Carlos brainstormed a rather pragmatic and precise blueprint for tracking down and dealing with the group of rogues.
Xavier took solace in how violent and definitive the plan was. It was the only thing that would make him feel better right now.
EIGHTEEN
SARA
“I’m fine!” Sara said, exasperated and irritated. She knew Annie was just trying to do her job, but her adrenaline was too high to handle the questions being thrown at her.
What she really wanted was to listen to the meeting on the other side of the wall.
She knew Xavier had a plan, and she wanted in. Not that she could do as much as the shifters themselves, but because she wanted revenge.
Those fucking assholes kidnapped her, put her baby in harm’s way, and she had to just sit and let it get sorted out? Fuck that shit.
“Honey, let me just do my job, okay? If not for you, then for your little one,” Annie said in her soothing voice.
Sara forced herself to take a deep, cleansing breath and nodded. She relaxed on the bed and let Annie check her vitals along with anything else that could show signs of distress or internal bleeding.
Once she had checked the baby’s heart rate and beat, along with movement, she smiled at Sara.
“Okay, dear. Everything looks good, just like you said. I know you’re angry about what happened. It doesn’t take a healer to see that. But just try your best to put yourself in a calm state and relax. Your baby has already had an upset. We don’t need any more if you can help it.”
