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The table had what looked like the remains of a meal. Maybe the sandwiches? Last night’s supper? “Did you eat breakfast?” he asked.
She nodded. “They let us out to cook for them this morning,” she stammered. “And we kept shifting people around, so it wasn’t until lunch just now that they realized Amanda was missing. They’ve been more upset this morning than usual. Something happened, but they wouldn’t tell us what was going on. And Amanda’s escape pushed them over the edge.”
“Which one did this?” Benny asked grimly. The woman had been attacked by a shifter in wolf form.
Cass hesitated. And it hit Benny with a rush —there were more than just the two of them.
Ryder!
“How many men were there?” he asked over his shoulder as he headed back out at a run.
“Four,” she quavered.
In the living room, Ryder was fighting silently against a wolf and two men —the clueless one and another one. Benny didn’t recognize the new man, and that was worrisome too.
“You couldn’t have shouted?” Benny said with disgust. He slugged Clueless in the stomach, and then chopped his neck. He crumpled into a heap on the floor at Ryder’s feet.
“Maybe I had some things to work out myself,” Ryder answered. He grabbed the wolf’s head and twisted it.
Benny snorted. He kicked the stranger in the nuts. The stranger had better fighting skills than the first two, Benny noted. The man danced backwards, avoiding the worst of the kick.
And then the biker trio showed up and kicked the backdoor in. “Sorry, boss,” Kev said. “There was another carload of them out back. Looked like they’d just pulled up.”
Trip grabbed Benny’s opponent by the neck and gave it a twist. A crack and done. Mucho was standing at the door — filling the door, actually; he was a big man, hence the name. He was sporting a puffed eye, slowly closing. Someone had landed a punch. Benny was impressed.
“Well, haul them inside,” Ryder ordered. “Can’t have unconscious bodies in the alley.”
Mucho and Trip nodded and went back out. But Kev stayed. “Eight,” he observed.
Ryder grunted. The front door opened, and Ryder whirled, fists coming up. He was on edge. Well, so was Benny. But it was Ken bringing in the Doc.
“In the back bedroom,” Benny said, gesturing with his head. “A wolf ripped her open.”
“What?” Dennis murmured, but he didn’t wait around for an answer.
“Check the kitchen,” Benny told Kev. “See if there’s meat. She could use some. We all might need some.”
Titus and the others came in through the front door at the same time that Mucho and Trip carried in the bodies from the back. Duncan’s eyes widened.
“You know them?” Benny asked.
Duncan shook his head. “More of the recruits, I assume?”
Benny shrugged. “I thought I’d met all the recruits last night at that dorm. And some of these are strangers.”
Duncan paused at that. He took a closer look at each of the men. They were starting to come around. Even a twisted neck wouldn’t keep a shifter down forever. But then you couldn’t question a dead shifter either. Benny glanced at the wolf. He wasn’t dead either, thankfully. He hated disposing of dead shifters in wolf form. He thought of Duncan’s jokes last night that kept the old Alpha in human form and snorted. Duncan might have had his own reasons for saying that, but he hadn’t been wrong.
Benny had had to get a dead wolf out of a human neighborhood before. It wasn’t easy.
“No, I don’t know any of them,” Duncan said troubled. “And I should.”
Benny just nodded. “There’s a lot wrong in this pack,” he observed.
“No shit,” Duncan said with a sigh. “We need to talk.”
“I’ve got meat,” Trip called. “I’m going to grill it outside. Too many of you in here for my comfort levels.”
“Fine,” Ryder said. “Grill all there is.”
