Page 48 of Wolf Tormented
I was a cruel bastard to her, and I didn’t even apologize as I planned. The gesture confused me and left me slightly rattled.
The pad of paper on the table catches my attention, and I pick it up. She made a list of things we need to send for on the next delivery run.
She was just crying a few hours ago, and she’s now making me food and making sure the pack has what they need. She’s much stronger than I’ve ever given her credit for.
“Fuck,” I say under my breath.
I put the plate back in the refrigerator for later and storm out of the room, but not before casting one last longing glance up the stairs to the bedroom my mate is in.
She wouldn’t even look at me as I thanked her for the gesture. Shaking my head, I close the front door quietly behind me and walk around the side of the house to the conference rooms.
Angela is standing outside with her arms crossed over her chest. She hands me a broken bolt. “I found this in the storeroom.”
It doesn’t prove foul play or that someone is out to get her. The bolt could have snapped off at any time.
“McKenna said one of the bolts snapped in half, so this is probably a piece of that. We just need to stay vigilant,” I say handing the bolt back.
I don’t want to believe someone in my pack is doing this to her, but I can’t ignore the evidence either.
I run a hand down my face. “We have bigger problems to deal with, c’mon.”
I wave for her to follow me into the conference room, and I sit at the head of the table. Patrick pulls a pack of green markers like the black ones from the cabinet and sets them on the table.
“We need everyone to watch the forest,” I say. “Two separate cameras were found way too close for comfort.”
I nod to Patrick, and he grabs two markers from the box and sets them on the map where we found the cameras.
Alex blows out a breath. “They are filming our woods? For what purpose?”
“We don’t know yet. We just found these two cameras hidden high in the trees today.”
“This is bad, Alpha. What are we going to do?”
“That’s what we need to figure out. Are they looking for the possibility of shifters, or is this a part of the business investigation that the government is conducting?” I lean back in my seat.
“What if it’s all connected?” Patrick sits forward.
“What do you mean?” I ask.
“We have discussed the possibility that the investigation into your business is really a fishing expedition for something else,” Patrick says. “What if the people setting the cameras are the same people investigating the businesses?”
Alex taps his fingers on the table and cocks his head to the side. “They did both start happening around the same time.”
“That we know of.” Patrick shakes his head. “They could have been out here before and seen something they shouldn’t have.”
My eyes widen as a memory assaults me. Three separate human scents in the forest when we were going for a pack run. Did they see us change?
Is that why the government came for us? They saw us shift and want to do experiments on us?
I fucking hope not.
“When Carter was terrorizing the pack…” I wince. “We smelled humans in the woods.”
“You’re thinking that it’s all connected?” Alex clenches his hand into a fist.
Angela nods. “That’s when all the trouble started.”
She glances at everyone in the room, but she won’t break in front of them. No matter how sad or uncomfortable this topic is for her, she won’t let anyone see her pain.
