Page 59 of A Wolf's Wound
“Okay.”I nod, knowing that arguing won’t accomplish anything.And I’m not even sure I disagree with what my brothers are saying.I just feel uneasy that they might be getting dragged into something that feels so personal to me.
“So what do we do now?”Thomas asks.
“Kick some creature ass!”Evan says.
Michael snorts.“You feel that amped up, bro, come do a shift with an enforcer team.”
“Sure!”
“Great, I’ll put you on the two a.m.downtown watch.”Michael smirks.“You’ll have to patrol all of the drunks leaving the bars at closing time and make sure none of them cause any trouble.”
“Wait, tonight?I was kind of planning onbeingone of the bar drunks tonight,” Evan says, his face falling.“Me and some of the guys were going to go out when this winds down.”
“In that case, put him on the eight a.m.shift,” Thomas suggests with an evil grin.“Send his hungover ass out into the streets.”
“Nah, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone,” Michael tells him.
“I can do that,” Evan protests.“Seriously, Michael, let me go out then.”
“Sure.”He shrugs.
“While I’m glad you’re stepping up,” Gavin tells Evan, “I’m not sure that beefing up the patrols is the way to go here.”
“Because we’ve already had patrols, and this shit keeps happening,” I say, and Gavin nods.“So maybe we need a new approach.”
“Exactly,” Gavin says.
“We know Hannah’s apartment building and the forest are the two locations where the most bodies have been found and the most attacks have happened,” I continue.
“And all of the bodies, aside from the councilman’s, have been human,” Thomas adds.
“Right.We also know that the forest animals have been threatened twice—once in the large attack that sent so many of them to Hannah’s clinic and then the deer that also ended up in the clinic a couple of days ago,” I add.
We’re all quiet, thinking about the different pieces of this puzzle.I close my eyes, imagining all of this as an actual puzzle.I move the pieces around in my mind, trying to find any connections.
To me, everything comes back to Hannah, starting with the attacks themselves.But if whoever’s behind this is targeting me in some way, why involve Hannah from the beginning?I hadn’t even met Hannah when she was attacked the first time.
But I still knew that she was in trouble, I realize.I knew I needed to go to her.What if whoever’s behind this knew I would do that?
Except that’s impossible.How could someone predict my behavior like that?And if I still don’t know what made me leave the date with April to save Hannah, how is it possible that someone else would know that?
“I don’t know what all this means,” Thomas says.“Except that the patrols should focus on Hannah and the forest.”
“We already have round-the-clock protection at her apartment,” Gavin says.
“We’ll add a team to the clinic,” Michael decides.“And double the number of patrols in the forest.”
“What do you think?”Gavin asks me.
I open my mouth to respond, when suddenly I hear a voice.It’s not one of my brothers; it’s not my parents or Hannah or anyone from the pack.It’s a voice I don’t know but still recognize immediately.I feel another memory rise to the surface of my subconscious.But the second I reach for it, it’s gone.
I spin around, searching for it.If I just heard the voice, if I’m remembering something, that means the speaker must be close.
Right?
Chapter 34
Hannah
