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“Nora,” he called up as loudly as he dared.
A shape moved in the branches, and after a minute, Nora climbed down.
“Two cameras on the backside of the facility. And it took the guard ten minutes to circle back around again,” she reported, hugging her arms tightly around her.
Hudson frowned. It wasn’t the same gesture she’d used when she was terrified earlier. Then, taking a closer look at her, he realized she was only wearing a sweater to brace against the elements.
He shrugged off his coat and put it around her. “Put this on. With the sun almost fully down, it’s only going to get colder.”
“But don’t you need it?” she protested.
He gave her a deadpan look.
She huffed and slipped the coat on. “Polar bear shifter… right. When will your clan be
here to help?”
His jaw tightened. “They’re refusing to come unless they have proof these humans are actually a threat to shifters.”
“What!” Nora hissed. “There’s a little girl in there about to be tortured by madmen. What could possibly make them wait? What proof do they want, her dead body?”
He shook his head. “The elders of the clan are deeply rooted in their customs. They’ll stick to their ways even if it endangers another. I’ve already called for a vote to overrule them. Hopefully, they’ll do it immediately, but not likely.”
“So what can we do?” she asked despairingly.
He’d been asking himself that same question ever since he’d hung up with the elders. They couldn’t just sit here and wait for a decision to be made. Who knows how long that would take? And then there was the possibility that the vote wouldn’t be in their favor.
Hannah was already in there, and they had no idea what they were doing to her at this very moment. He would not just stand by for the sake of politics.
“We’re going in,” he said firmly.
She nodded without hesitation. “What’s the plan?”
His respect for her rose all the more. She was no shifter or trained soldier, and yet she was willing to dive into a fight, nonetheless.
But he also couldn’t go in with just her. She might have had the spirit for it, but she lacked the muscle. It would mean certain death despite her good intentions.
“I’m calling Logan to see if he’ll help us.”
She raised an eyebrow. “But if the elders weren’t keen on sending help, why would he come?”
“Logan is my beta. His loyalty is to me.” At least, he hoped Logan would be willing to go against the elders to help.
He dialed his beta, who answered on the second ring. “What’s the situation, Alpha?”
Hudson felt his jaw clench as he responded. “Logan, Hannah’s been taken and is being held by humans who want to experiment on her. I think they could be the same ones we’ve been looking into who caused the plane crash.”
Logan swore colorfully on the other end. “Send me the coordinates. I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
“I will warn you, the elders have already denied me the chance to call backup from the clan thus far. If you do this, they could hold you in contempt.”
“Let them,” Logan said as though it were trivial.
“Then we’ll see you soon.”
TWENTY-THREE
NORA
