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Authors: Alisa Woods
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“Oh, shit.” She held a hand to her mouth in horror.
“Yeah,” Scott responded.
“Um?” Owen asked, looking between the two of them.
Scott gestured to the screen. “I’ve been searching through the computer we recovered, you know, from the… the scene of the crime.” He was talking about Nova’s kidnapping but obviously didn’t want to call it what it was—a torture room.
“You mean Tommy Rachet’s computer,” Owen said.
Scott let out a sigh. “Yes. And he’s definitely the one who doxed the Wilding and River packs. Somehow he’d accessed our servers and pulled out all kinds of stuff. There are raw dumps of data all over his computer, and all kinds of private name and addresses show up.”
Owen peered at Nova. “That’s good, right? Now we know he’s the guy.”
“Well, not really.” Scott tapped on the laptop and brought up another screen. One with a video. “This was just uploaded today.”
The frozen start screen was definitely the Wolf Hunter.
“Today?” Nova asked, still looking horrified.
Owen scowled at the screen. “Could it have been recorded earlier and just uploaded now?”
Scott shook his head. “It was a live feed earlier today.” He started playing the video.
“A lot of you have been leaving comments about the latest shifter video,” the Wolf Hunter intoned with his creepy, modulated voice. He had the same mask as the original doxing video, same voice changer. Owen knew Rachet’s videos had a similarly styled mask, but he’d never bothered to change his voice. Something Owen had missed before.
Then a two second loop started to play of a large, white wolf slicing Tommy Rachet to pieces.
“Oh, shit,”
Owen whispered.
“What about the part where I was tortured?” Nova asked, outraged. “Where’s that!”
Owen slipped his arm around her. She shouldn’t have to watch this again. “Shut it off,” he said to Scott.
The man frowned. “There’s just that part in the beginning. You should watch the rest.”
Owen grimaced, but Nova nodded, so he let it go.
The looping stopped, and the Wolf Hunter in his mask returned. “Do you see the danger they present? Do you see why they must be stopped? Use any means necessary, my fellow True Humans, but show the shifters that you are not intimidated by them. Lure them in, use their ways against them, but make them pay for the crimes against humanity they’ve committed.” The Wolf Hunter leaned closer to the camera. “The white wolves are a special danger. You saw what this monster is capable of.”
Nova’s hand found his. The FBI had questioned her and her staff and even Owen, but they couldn’t ID the wolf DNA at the scene of the crime.
Owen’s blood.
They couldn’t prove he was the one who killed Tommy Rachet, even if it was in self-defense.
The video continued with the Wolf Hunter giving another one of his hate-filled screeds. Owen tapped the screen to end it.
“I’m sorry,” Scott said. “But I thought you’d want to know right away.”
“No, you did good,” Owen said.
Nova nodded her approval as well.
“So what are we going to do?” Scott asked.
Owen could feel the flush of magic, the trust that Scott had from submitting to him, that Owen would lead the way in this crisis. But it wasn’t just a crisis for Nova. Or even Wylderide.
He squeezed Nova a little tighter. “We launch the game. We live our lives. We don’t let this bastard ruin any of that. But, yeah… it’s clear that no Wilding is safe until we stop this guy.”
Scott gave him a nod and retreated with his laptop.
Owen drew Nova into his arms and kissed the top of her head. “He didn’t say anything about you. He’s not targeting you specifically. You and your dad… that was all about Tommy Rachet, and he’s dead now.”
She nodded against his chest, holding him tight. After a moment, she leaned back. “I’m not really worried about myself anymore. I’m worried about every other Wilding out there. And any wolf who falls into this guy’s crosshairs.”
Owen nodded and drew her back. “I know.”
Rachet was dead, but the Wolf Hunter still lived. And how many other Rachets would there be out there, vigilantes who would blame shifters for their inadequate lives and take out their frustrations by hunting down and killing wolves? Owen would do everything he could to protect his new mate and his new pack from the dangers, but there was no doubt…
It was a dangerous time to be a wolf.
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