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Wolfe shook his head. “Nikki isn’t saying. We have a meeting scheduled for this afternoon, but she hasn’t given us the location yet.”
“She’s a rogue,” Jonas bit out. “She needs to be reined in.”
Wolfe snorted at that. “Sure, Wyatt, you go for reining her. Let me know how that works out for you.”
“We need our own men in Advert,” Dash stated then. “Cassie’s afraid this is going to end in bloodshed. She’s pacing the floors, Wolfe.”
Wolfe grimaced. Cassie, or Cassandra, Sinclair knew things she shouldn’t know. She saw things she shouldn’t see, and if she was scared, then there was a hell of a risk.
“I want every enforcer available,” he told Jonas. “Feline, Wolf, Coyote, I don’t give a shit. Get them ready. I want half sent to Advert and half ready to fly with us. Whatever the hell is going on, we need to be prepared.”
“Doctors,” Hope whispered.
Wolfe looked up at her with a frown.
“She’s meeting with two council scientists she helped hide in Russia. The very two Nikki has been searching for to bring to Haven. Chernov and Sobolova. Her father is bringing them into Advert. She requested asylum for them.”
“Did you grant it?” Wolfe asked carefully.
Hope shook her head. “Nikki just told me before Del-Rey showed up. But that’s why Anya ran. She’s afraid Del-Rey will kill them. He expressly forbade her to contact them. She’s breaking Breed Law and she knows it. She contacted Council scientists without the express permission of one of the alphas of the ruling cabinet.”
Jonas cursed, Dash breathed out roughly, and Wolfe felt a sigh of regret pass his lips. They had no choice but to give asylum to the doctors. Giving asylum to Anya wouldn’t be as uncomplicated.
“She had my permission.” Jonas shrugged, as though surprised. “Didn’t you get that memo?”
Wolfe’s head jerked up. Only one alpha had to be contacted. Responsibility then went to that alpha to contact the others.
“We’ve had server problems,” Wolfe said softly. “Had to shut everything down.”
“Ah.” Jonas’s eyes widened as he spread his hands. “Well, that explains it. Consider yourselves informed.”
“You informed Alpha Delgado?” Wolfe asked.
“Same memo.” Jonas smiled.
Wolfe chuckled.
“Manipulating bastard.” Dash accused him with a grin. “Remind me to watch the two of you more carefully in the future.”
“Hmm,” Hope murmured. “Dash is put out. He must not have gotten his memo either.”
Male chuckles filled the room, but there was a hint of worry there as well. The Coyote alliance was important to the Breed society as a whole, but more than that, Del-Rey and Anya were their friends. Their future was important to them too.
“Let’s get it together,” Wolfe said moments later. “Find out where Satin and her women are holding the coya and get a message to her. Let’s see if we can do this without killing anyone.”
“Let’s pray we can get this done without any of us getting killed,” Jonas sighed as he moved for the door. “It would look damned bad on the Bureau if we have to wade out of a war in Advert.”
And it would plain piss Jonas off, because war was the last thing the Breeds needed right now.
CHAPTER 24
Daylight was riding the mountains as the all-terrain moved over back roads, followin
g satellite imagery of hidden cabins that could possibly be Breed safe houses. There were many in and around Advert, Del-Rey knew, though he didn’t know the locations of each as he should have.
He liked to say Coyotes were lazy and shiftless, that they were more rogues than warriors; otherwise, they’d be Wolves. It wasn’t true. They liked to play the game. They liked to convince the world they were that harmless, but the truth was, they were exacting in their deliberate sloppiness.
“Team one.” The general link opened to his comm. “Alpha, we’ve scoured this side of the mountain,” Brazon reported. “We found two cabins, empty. One with a vacationing family. Thermal imagery gives us a single adult female, an adult male and two minors. That’s it.”
