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Another alert pinged. Mercer checked his phone.
“It says one of the cameras on the wall by the aviary recorded movement.”
“Shit.” Jupiter spun. “I’ll check that out and I’ll call for backup your way.”
“It sounds like we’re being invaded,” Mercer said.
“We better not fucking be,” Jupiter yelled over his shoulder.
Mercer continued to run toward the elephant paddock. He heard footsteps and slowed to look to the side, seeing Lucius and Javan headed his way.
“Jupiter sent us, we were headed to the aviary,” Javan said when they caught up to him.
“Who’s helping him?” Mercer asked.
“Caesar and a couple wolves. Amadeus is going to the office to watch the monitors and figure out what’s going on,” Lucius said.
Mercer unlocked the gate to the paddock and walked through, looking at his phone to see where the detector had pinged on a map. “It looks like it’s the far side,” he said.
“Unless someone is climbing over, we won’t be able to see them,” Javan said.
“We just need to make sure no one made it in here; a team is sweeping outside the park,” Mercer said.
As he jogged in the direction of a stand of trees a few yards from the wall, his phone pinged again with another alert.
Stopping, he pulled the phone from his pocket.
It was an alert for the season ticket office, but it was the kind of alert that meant Rhomi had pushed the panic button.
Shit!
“Rhomi’s in trouble!” he yelled, turning sharply and racing back out of the paddock. His friends followed as he ran as fast as he could. He was nearly on the other side of the park from the ticket office. And so were the other security team members, as alert after alert had sent their security forces to different parts of the park, far away from the office.
What the hell did it mean?
I’m coming for you, Rhomi!
ChapterTwenty
The man kept striking the glass with his fist. It cracked suddenly, and Rhomi backed away from the window. He kept punching the window, the crack growing. Her heart was pounding and every ancient instinct inside her demanded she run.
She backed to the door and grasped the handle.
The glass shattered entirely, fragments flying into the tiny office space.
Rhomi didn’t scream, although that’s what she wanted to do.
Instead, she pressed the handle and swung the door open, racing outside.
Predators or not, she was going to run for her life.
Two steps from the door, she ran right into someone’s chest, and this time she screamed.
“Rhomi, it’s me,” Mercer said.
“Someone’s breaking into the office!”
He tucked her behind him with a growl, and she saw Lucius and Javan run around the front of the small building.
