Redemption Road by L.J. Breedlove
Author:L.J. Breedlove
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L.J. Breedlove
Published: 2024-01-23T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 16
Day 159 of the re-emerged Hat Island pack, Wednesday, Nov. 13, Penticton
The takedown of the house near the college went smoothly enough. Ryder and his Wolves staked out the place until the young men started coming home from work. By 6 p.m., he decided they were probably all home â those who were coming home â and he walked inside.
There was little hostility. Ryder thought they might have even been grateful. Had they too lost their connection to Bjorn and the pack, and just waited hoping that they hadnât been forgotten? The first dorm had Miles to go for help. Who had this group had?
Well some of them had gone to their shifts at the houses where the women were held, Ryder reminded himself. Donât forget that these young men â just like last nightâs young men â are hardly innocents here.
Ryder surveyed the young men sitting in the living room and sighed, though. They mostly looked pathetic. Another dozen young men. Apparently 18 lived here, but they already had six of them in custody. He needed a location to hold all these men while they figured things out! And then what was he going to do with them?
Benny was upstairs talking to some of them individually. He was pursuing the man he called the Pied Piper. Ryder recognized that intent narrow focus. Benny was on a hunt. But Ryder needed solutions to here and now, and sadly, he didnât have any.
What he had was roughly two dozen young men who had been waiting to become part of Chenâs army and do battle. âFor what?â Ryder asked them, puzzled. âWhat is the army for?â
Theyâd looked at each other. âWeâre mercenaries,â one of them explained earnestly. âWe fight for the side that hired us. For the side that gave....â He trailed off and looked around him. He didnât finish the thought, but Ryder knew â for the side that gave them their wolves. He didnât know whether some of the men â those who had been recruited from family packs and independents â really didnât know that the others were made-wolves. If they did, they probably assumed it was done the old way, by nearly killing them and bringing them back as shifters.
But Ryder didnât think any of them had been changed that way. No, all of these had a latent gene that allowed the Pied Piper to bring the wolf forward.
So now they had 20 recruits in Everett with Mei Tanaka, some at the Vancouver pack house, a few more in Bellingham, and now these. And there was still the lodge. He couldnât get a concrete number of how many might be waiting up there for him.
He sighed. What he had was recent recruits and no drill sergeants. He needed some sergeants ASAP.
He looked at his own men. âKev? There was a kid last night at the other dorm, named Andrew. Could you fetch him? By that I mean go ask him nicely to come here?â Best to be clear, Ryder had found.
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