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“No, but we’re just keeping alert. Extra patrols and such.”

Gavin hummed. “Us too. We haven’t seen or heard from them in months. Maybe their leader Brent decided it wasn’t worth the hassle.”

“I don’t know about that,” Leo said. “If he’d moved on, then he would have shown up in another state messing with shifters. It’s like he went into hiding.”

“Good point,” Gavin said.

“We’ve got our best people scouring online for any word about him and of course all our patrols,” Brick said. “If we hear or see anything, I’ll reach out to let you know. We should keep all the shifter groups updated with information on him and his followers.”

“Agreed,” Gavin said. He and Brick exchanged numbers and promised to help keep their people safe. It would be nice if Brent stopped trying to take out shifters forever, and no one ever heard from him or his organization again. However, Gavin doubted that someone so fanatical would just give up after working so long trying to make the world shifter-free.

As the night wore on, Gavin wondered what Brent was actually up to. He’d done some shitty things since he’d come to Northern Ohio and gone after the tigers including bombing the vampire bank where the tiger’s construction crew worked and abducting Midas’s and Romeo’s mates. They’d even attempted to abduct young tigers as they got off the bus from school.

“We’re ready to go,” Ava said breathlessly as she and Lena appeared at the table. “Paris just did last call, and all the cute guys are gone.”

Leo cleared his throat noisily and Lena giggled. “Present company excluded of course.”

“I’ll settle your tab and we can go,” Gavin said.

“I already did,” Lena said. “We’re good.”

“Take care,” Gavin said to the males at the table. “I’ll be in touch if we see or hear anything.”

“We will too,” Brick said. “Take it easy.”

Their quartet headed out into the warm June evening among the other patrons who’d decided it was time to go.

Gavin unlocked the SUV and stopped to stare at the night sky before getting behind the wheel. Tomorrow was the full moon. His tiger was humming in his head and making him feel like something might happen, but the beast hadn’t been feeling any kind of way about anyone in the club.

Was the full moon going to bring someone amazing into his life?

He sure as hell hoped so.

He’d been single long enough. He was ready to start the next chapter of his life and to see where the future would take him and his truemate.

He just had to find her first.

Chapter

Five

Saturday afternoon, Sadie rode with Alli to the wolf pack presided over by Alpha Adam Beaumont and his mate Cinder. Her stomach was a bundle of nerves, like a thousand butterflies were trapped in her belly, twisting and tangling together until she felt like she was halfway between barfing all over Alli’s cute convertible or having a nervous breakdown.

“It’ll be fine,” Alli said, her hair tucked back in a pretty green scarf to keep the wind from whipping it everywhere.

Sadie was wishing she’d agreed to a scarf as well, since her own hair was all over the place.

“Tell that to my stomach.”

Alli smiled at her. “Adam and Cinder said you’re welcome to join them for the full moon. If they didn’t want you there, they wouldn’t have invited you, period. And it doesn’t mean that you have to join the pack, you know.”

She’d been thinking about that ever since she’d run away from her own pack. She hadn’t been exiled from her pack by the alpha so she was still a member, which meant she couldn’t actually join a pack if she wanted to. But she was pretty sure after running away like she did that if shedidtry to go back toIronwood, Alpha Holloway would pop her into a cell so fast her head would swim. Just because he could.

“That’s not what’s worrying me.”

“Okay, so what is? You look like you’re going to hurl all over my car.”

“I just don’t know where to go now.”

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