INVISIBLE POWER BOOK TWO: ALEX NOZIAK (INVISIBLE RECRUITS) by Buckham Mary

Author:Buckham, Mary [Buckham, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cantwell Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-07-17T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 37

Jeb lifted the cool washcloth to his head while sitting on the edge of the bathtub in Philippe’s black and white tiled bathroom. His cuts had mostly healed now, one of the boons of being a shifter, but the gash along his head had bled for a good long while.

“Feeling better?” Pádraig said from the doorway.

Jeb nodded though he wanted to growl, what do you think? His son had attacked him. Van, his firstborn, lunged at Jeb as if his father was a pesky coyote needing to be taken down.

And Van had damn near done just that. Jeb couldn’t seriously fight back, not without harming his boy.

He’d seen the crazed, vacant look in Van’s eyes. If he didn’t know his son, his scent, the markings of his wolf, Jeb would have said that hadn’t been Van. But it was. While at the same time it wasn’t.

Raising his head to eye Pádraig who’d dragged Jeb’s wolf form away after one of the assailants had tasered him, he knew he owed the young man. “Thank you. For what you did back there.”

The Irishman ran a hand through his ruffled hair. “It was close. Another few minutes and the feukeu would have collected you before I could.”

“Feukeu?”

Pádraig cantered one shoulder. “Police.”

Jeb nodded then wished he hadn’t. His head felt like it had in his old rodeo days, after he’d been tossed from a bronc and landed hard.

“Do you know why your son was there?” Pádraig asked.

“No idea.”

Jeb hadn’t mentioned that Alex had been there, too, but he was going to find out why. He knew who the man was who tackled her. Bran, the dress designer and the man who was supposed to have been brought before the Council less than an hour ago for suspected involvement in a scheme to drug preternaturals against their will. But the meeting had been put off now.

The charges against this Bran were serious, with two of the Council members already agitating for a death penalty based on the man’s cousin’s involvement in using a similar drug against humans. If the Council had a full body, and hadn’t been dealing with the ramifications of a reported shifter attack against humans in broad daylight, the designer might not have been given another forty-eight hours to prove he was not involved in the drug issue.

None of the Council members knew Jeb and Pádraig had been present at the park. Not yet at least. Nor did they know that the shifter who had broken the basic tenet of the last three hundred years; don’t show, don’t tell and never, under any reason, reveal yourself to a human had been Jeb’s son.

The last time the Council had assembled in a full quorum, and even with Philippe’s calm guidance, the chamber had been crowded with several Weres agitating for representation on the Council. They’d always been angry that shifters were represented with a Council seat but not Weres.

Jeb had been willing to listen to their complaints, which held some legitimacy. Wei

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