Seek and You Shall Find by L.J. Breedlove

Author:L.J. Breedlove
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wolf Harbor, shifter romance, werewolves, paranormal suspense, urban fantasy, action and adventure
Publisher: L.J. Breedlove
Published: 2023-06-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Sunday, June 8, Hat Island

The new cohort was at Wolf Harbor. Cujo had gotten a look at them as they walked their laps around the central lawn of the resort. A cross-section of American women, he thought. Stefan was meticulous about that — making sure that all races were included. Fair enough, shifters came in all races. This cohort seemed to have a wider age range than Cujo remembered from his own cohorts.

He wondered which one was Mei’s professor?

He hadn’t seen Mei since he got back. She probably didn’t know he was here; he hadn’t checked into the hotel. He grinned at that. She’d flagged his hotel. Haru Ito had a flag in the airport computers. Might make a man paranoid. It was as if they didn’t trust him to let them know he was in town.

Not that it would be hard to circumvent either tag. Not for him.

Okami knew he was at the shack. And as soon as he was over the jet lag, he was going to try another tranq dose. He wanted to do it while he was asleep. Eliminate that variable. If he was already open because he was asleep, the tranq might send him deeper — deep enough to reach her — without her being the one to reach out to him first.

Because that was the other variable — she had reached out in her distress. And he couldn’t predict that. He could be ready, however. So he carried one of his tranq darts with him, although the best-case scenario was that he’d feel her distress start, and he’d head back to the shack and take the dose there. And call Okami. He wouldn’t forget that step.

No one needed a disoriented shifter wandering around the island. He pictured a wolf staggering around the island, snarling at shadows. His wolf huffed. As if he’d be staggering. But the wolf agreed that it might be better not to be roaming the island, disoriented by the tranq. The wolf did not like the drugs.

Cujo didn’t blame him. He didn’t either. Wednesday night, he decided. He’d be past the jet lag by then. Go to sleep. Have Yui give him a shot. See what happened.

Instead, Tuesday night, Okami woke him up. “Come on,” he said tensely. “I need backup.”

Cujo pulled on clothes. He hesitated, and then added a pistol to his ankle holster. It wasn’t the shifter way to use human weapons, but if Okami thought he needed backup, Cujo was going armed. He’d bet on Okami invading third-world countries successfully by himself.

They headed to the fishing trawler. Cujo thought he really needed to get himself a boat. Something small and unnoticeable, maybe. Or a bigger boat, a yacht like Tanaka’s. These stealthy night trips on a 40-foot fishing boat were unseemly. He laughed at himself.

“What’s going on?” Cujo asked when they were underway, and Cujo was standing in the cockpit with Okami.

“Got a call from Mei,” he said. “She said she needed help.”

“Mei?” Cujo said alarmed. “What kind of help?”

“She didn’t sound hurt or in danger,” Okami said.

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