Shifter Babies of America Box Set 1 by Becca Fanning

Author:Becca Fanning [Fanning, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 20

Victor growled to himself as he pored over the reports from the last month. His people had been attacked seemingly at random. Some were guards, while others were members of his pack—the largest wolf shifter pack in Louisiana, and fourth largest in the United States—who paid dues to the pack but held civilian jobs outside its ranks. Victims had been young and old, rich and poor, attacked at work, at home, or even out in public on two occasions. The only commonality seemed to be that they were shifters.

Victor couldn’t even know for sure if shifters from Raphael’s pack had been targeted, or if these attacks were being leveled only at his wolves. Even if Raphael had been willing to cooperate, which was damned unlikely, the pack was so much smaller than his own that it was possible they would have escaped unscathed, even if all shifters were being targeted.

The unknown threat had his wolf close to the surface, leaving him feeling on edge and closer to losing control than he had been in years. If he, as the strongest shifter in the pack, felt this out of control, how much worst must it be for those under his care? If he didn’t get this under control soon it wouldn’t be the attacks that would tear his pack apart. It would be humanity. Shifters had been out in the open for years, but public acceptance of them was uneasy at best.

For years shifters had tried to appear as small a threat as possible. For some this meant living under public scrutiny while trying to appear as docile as possible. Here in the southern United States, where superstition was still as natural as breathing, and where people had still believed in the supernatural while the rest of the world wallowed blissfully in their ignorance, most packs had opted for a different route. They simply hid what they truly were. One day they all hoped that shifters and humanity could truly coexist peacefully, but that day was not today. For now they would bide their time. It was better to hide their true nature, as their kind had been doing for thousands of years, and it was to be made unwelcome in the only home they’d ever known.

That wouldn’t be possible anymore if one of his pack ended up shifting in public because they’d been pushed to their emotional limit. It was a dangerous precipice they hovered above. One wrong step and there would be no going back. If they were outed, the other packs in the region would try to get rid of them, quickly and quietly, before they could cause any more unrest. That outcome was unacceptable.

Victor had to find and crush this threat before he lost control. More than that, before he lost his home and everything he’d worked to build in order to protect those under his care.

He’d come close to losing control last night, with the gorgeous, eavesdropping guest at the hotel. He would like to

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