Wolf Gatherings Box Set, Volume Two by Becca Jameson

Author:Becca Jameson [Jameson, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Becca Jameson Publishing

Chapter 8

Steven Wightman stood at the front window of his secluded home sipping his coffee and staring out at the rain. It wasn’t different from many other days in Seattle, but his hackles were up this morning. Sundays were usually quiet days for Steven. Sundays were the only day he didn’t go in to The Head Council offices to perform some duty as one of the five head elders.

But times were changing, just like the weather. He closed his eyes and thought about everything that had transpired in the last year. After hundreds of years living in peace, the existence of shifters was threatened. He didn’t know yet who posed the threat, but he was certain turmoil was coming, racing toward him like a steam engine.

Few humans had ever been privy to the secrets of their shifter friends and neighbors. Now, Steven felt he couldn’t even trust his closest friends. Someone he worked with every single day—someone he ate lunch with, shared drinks with, exchanged stories with—one of those someones had betrayed the shifter community and put them all at risk. He feared that someone was another member of The Head Council.

Ralph Jerard was out. No way could he believe that for a minute. That left Melvin Cunningham, Earl Johnson, and Lucas Sheffield. And it chilled him to the bone to consider any of those possibilities. It had put a strain on their collective relationships with each other knowing what Steven knew and keeping it to himself.

There were no more Sundays for Steven. Every day was another day he had to tackle this problem head on. It was early still. In another hour he would leave the house to meet with the head elder, Ralph Jerard. The man was older, but he was wise, and Steven trusted him with his life.

Of all the possible shifters he knew, Ralph wasn’t a suspect in his mind. For any of the other employees of The Head Council, all bets were off. Every other shifter was a suspect.

And the problems they were facing seemed to be piling up incrementally each day. If they couldn’t find the leader of the mysterious Romulus soon and put an end to its pyramid of followers, there would be no way to keep the existence of shifters from the rest of humanity much longer.

Eventually war would break out among the shifter community. A war Steven never expected to see in his lifetime.

A faint whine met Steven’s ears. He opened his eyes wide and squeezed his coffee mug tighter. As a shifter, his sense of hearing was better than the average human. The whine could be anything. It may not even be close.

He peered outside. The rain came down harder, beating against the picture window of his living room. Even with his increased eyesight, he could see nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, he couldn’t see much past the porch between the dense storm and the water running off the roof to form a sheet of clear liquid that cascaded like a waterfall over the rain gutter and onto the railing.

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