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way.”
“Then noon should be soon enough to see it done. Unless you have something else for me young lady I would like to get a nap in before we start. Tamia will have my phone and see to anything anyone needs.”
Casey waved her hand toward the door. “No. I am fine. I was just coming to check in on you and see if you had word from any Alphas when I met Craig leading Kate down the hall. I was then going to find something to eat.”
“Excellent. You may walk with me. I feel sure Tamia has breakfast ready and she sends word,” he tapped his head, “that she would enjoy your company.”
William flipped the light switch off and closed the door behind him just as a small booming sound echoed through the building. He closed his eyes a moment before he opened them and turned to Casey. “Do you think she broke anything?”
Casey laughed, “Probably, but Craig will pay for it, he always does. You would think he would learn to let her sleep by now.”
“Yes. One would think that.” William muttered as they made their way down the hall toward the apartment.
***
Six hours later William squeezed his mate’s fingers as he watched Kate and Casey, aided by Dacron, try to undo the curse that had lingered over the shifters for three centuries. It would be decades before they knew if it worked. Decades of chasing rogues, rescuing the few females they could find and protecting the ones they had. But shifters were a long lived race, a few decades was nothing to a race that lived to 900 or more depending on the age they mated and what the age difference was between the two. William exhaled an unsteady breath as the last word was spoken. Turning he pulled Tamia into his arms and held her as the others filed from the room.
Chapter Eleven
Gracie stirred at the sudden sound from across the table. Raising her eyebrows she stared at Halo and waited. And waited some more. From the look on his face she would say he had a lead. She had seen that gotcha look on his face more than once. If he had something it was more than she had found. The house had been a dead end. Someone had rented it but that someone didn’t exist. Well, they hadn’t expected anything different. It was, after all, the way their organization operated also.
“What did you find? Anything?” She finally asked.
Halo looked up from his computer with a smirk. “Oh, yeah. I think I have a starting point. The jeep was rented, dead end there. But, the jeep has been returned to the airport. I have checked the flights. One Hendrix Livitsky caught a flight this morning to San Fransisco in California in the United States. The same card was used for a Jeffery Canton. Now, I have no idea if the name he gave us is his name or the name on this flight manifest is correct but I do remember you said his new partner’s name is Jeffery so, we have a starting point.”
“Dubois is nothing like Livitsky. One is French, the other Russian. We spoke in Russian a few times, once he found I could speak the language, if poorly. He spoke it fluently and said he learned it at his step-father’s or maybe it was adopted father’s knee. So if I was a betting person I would say Dubois is the name he uses on missions and Livitsky the name on his passport.”
“What else do we know about the man or his past?” Halo asked her.
“Hardly anything. He is American, he told me that much. His step-father is Russian, no, I take that back, his step-father speaks Russian fluently. That doesn’t help much. He enjoys snow and nights that don’t end. He loves watching the Aurora Borealis ”
“Nights that never end. Now does that mean good sex or arctic circle? Alright, Russian, nights that don’t end, the Aurora Borealis, American. What do you have on that line of information?”
Gracie spun her computer around. “The house was a dead end. You know me well, I did start looking using that information. With that scant information their Alaska state is the only state that has night that last for months. The snow happens in most of the States. The Aurora Borealis can, according to my research, be seen from most of their states but only rarely. The northern states are not as rare but still infrequent.