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Micah

“Where’s Lucy?” Micah demanded.

“I don’t know,” Gavin said, plastering an innocent look on his face. “I haven’t seen her.”

“That’s the problem. No one has seen her,” Micah said.

“I told you that she was bad news. She just up and disappeared on you. If I were you, I’d count the silverware and any other valuables that she might have taken with her,” Gavin said.

It took every ounce of willpower Micah had not to punch the smug look off of his father’s face. Micah knew that his father had something to do with Lucy’s disappearance, but he couldn’t prove it. He just hoped that she was still alive.

Michelle told him that she literally got to the hospital ten minutes after Lucy called to say she was being discharged. Lucy intended to go home. But somehow, in that ten-minute time frame, she managed to disappear off the face of the earth.

Hospital security showed an orderly, wearing a scrub cap, scrubs, and a face mask, helping Lucy into a wheelchair and pushing her into the elevator. They came out of the elevator on the first floor and the orderly wheeled her outside. The cameras did not capture what happened next.

Micah roamed all over the mountain, wondering if she had been taken there and killed. He was relieved when he didn’t find her remains, but at the same time desperate to find her.

Sean said he never saw her come into Howlers’ to use the portal. No rental car agency had any record of her taking a car. The Uber folks said that she hadn’t contacted them to take her anywhere. Her bank account hadn’t been touched. It was as though she had disappeared off the face of the Earth.

After two weeks, Mason, the man in charge of the trio who kidnapped Lucy, finally decided to talk, since the penalty that Zac threatened to impose on him would have been very painful and permanent.

Mason and the other two guys sat in the conference room with Micah, Zac, Ian, Conner, and Sean, as well as the pack elders.

“Gavin Hoffman gave us each ten grand to kidnap and kill the woman. He promised us another ten grand each once she was dead. That was why we were so anxious to send him the pictures of her lying on the cave floor tied up.” Mason sneered and said, “If we hadn’t left her to find a signal, you would have never found her body.”

Micah clenched his fists and leaped over the table. Conner and Ian grabbed him and pulled him back to his seat.

“Not yet,” Micah said. “Do you have proof that Gavin paid you?”

“He gave us cash,” the second man said. “But I put nine thousand of it into my mother’s account since the government is notified of deposits of ten thousand and more. You can check that. I put the money in the same day that we kidnapped her.”

The other two men still had the cash in their houses, because they never had time to do anything with it. Zac sent people to their houses and found the cash.

Pushing pen and paper toward the three men, Zac said, “Write out your statements and sign them.”

Mason looked at Zac and said, “No.”

Zac smiled and said, “In that case, Micah, you can take him to the same spot on the mountain where he took Lucy. He’s all yours.”

Micah stood with a murderous look in his eyes and grinned. Mason quickly started writing, much to Micah’s disappointment.

“Where is she now?” Micah asked.

The two henchmen looked at each other with a scared look on their faces and then shrugged their shoulders. “We don’t know. We just got out of the hospital not too long ago. Neither of us have done anything. You guys damn near killed us.”

“It’s too bad we didn’t,” Micah snarled.

“Mason, what do you know?” Zac asked.

“I swear. We had nothing to do with it.”

Micah believed him.

Once the men had signed the confessions, Zac said, “You are sentenced to a life sentence at Gray Rock Island.”

Gray Rock Island was a very harsh prison camp where exiled shifters in the human world were sent to perform hard labor. It was in the middle of the ocean and the only way off the island was death.

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