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Both Colby and Hutch started to laugh.
“Let me ask you this, sweetheart, what was your first impression of Jax?”
She thought for a moment, “An Eagle Scout with all the merit badges.”
“Precisely,” said Colby. “Not exactly spy material.”
“Do you have someone you suspect?” asked Nora.
Colby looked to Hutch, who nodded. “I think I have it narrowed down to one of three possibles: Morty, the moose-shifter. He delivers supplies all over Kodiak and doesn’t seem to call any place home. Will—”
“The bartender at The Workshop?” asked Colby.
“Yeah, he’s a weasel-shifter…”
“Technically a marten-shifter…”
“Not enough difference between them, and I’ve never known any weasel-shifter I could trust. And the last one is kind of a reach.”
“Who’d you have in mind?” asked Colby.
“Ellis Wells.”
Colby sat back. “You’ve got to be joking.”
“Who is Ellis Wells?” asked Nora.
“He’s the father of Asher Wells, the head of the park rangers here in Alaska,” said Colby. “And if you think Sheriff Jax Miller is a straight arrow, you don’t know the meaning of that term until you’ve met Ash. I’m no fan of Ellis, but I can’t see him as being the mole.”
“Maybe because you’re too close to him. Remember when you wanted me to start looking for the mole, you admitted that my not having lived here my whole life gave me the advantage of distance.”
“He’s right,” said Nora. “Besides, if this Ellis is the mole, it doesn’t mean your friend Ash knows.”
“Besides, Wolf Run has a lot of advantages as a base, and he has wolves at his command. I’ll grant you most of the ones I’ve met strike me as honorable, but not all of them.”
“Balder,” said Colby. “Why not him instead of Ellis?”
“Balder is a thug. He’s a soldier. He doesn’t have the brains to be a mole, but he could certainly be duped into doing whatever Ellis wants or needs him to do.”
Colby nodded and smiled sadly at Hutch. “I picked the right man for the job.”
“Once I’m dead…” started Hutch.
“We’ll keep you hidden up here at Windsong. I can set up whatever electronics you need to keep tabs on Nora as well as continue to try and figure out who the mole is.”
“Keep in mind there may be more than one, and Trudy said she had a large group coming in for a week or so. You’ll want to look at them, as well. One of them could be a courier.”
“Point taken,” said Colby. “I’ll tell Hamish to stay in town and keep an eye on them. Once Hutch has been killed, he’ll have the perfect excuse to be paranoid. It’ll make sense that he wants to stay close to her and with guests there’s no way she’d come out here.”
“Until we know who’s who,” said Hutch, “we need to keep the circle small on this—me, Nora, Doc, Jax, Hamish, and you.”
“Why Hamish? I mean, he seems like a nice enough guy…” started Nora.
“He is. He is also my second-in-command.”
Nora nodded. She knew there was a kind of sacred trust that went with that position.
“Oh, before I forget, are you aware that the League has dragons?”
