Wolf Untamed (SWAT - Special Wolf Alpha Team #11) - Paige Tyler Page 0,123

two kids—twin girls. You’re in some of them. And you’re smiling.” Misty’s eyes returned to their normal lavender as she handed the phone back to him. “You should smile more often. It’s a good look on you.”

Jake stared at her, not sure what to say to that. Hell, he didn’t even understand what he’d heard.

“I can access any electronic device I touch,” she explained. “And since the Internet connects everything and everyone, that means I can get into pretty much anywhere and anything if I want to.”

“So you’re basically a hacker?” Caleb’s voice was casual as usual, but Jake got the feeling he was impressed.

Misty gave him a smile. “Yes. Although I prefer the word technopath.”

“How is that even possible?” Harley asked, a stunned expression on her face.

Misty opened her mouth to answer, but McKay interrupted.

“I understand you all have questions, and any other time, I’d have the whole team get to know each other, but unfortunately, that’s not an option right now. We have a situation in London. Two STAT agents are dead. I need to get your team up to speed and on a plane ASAP.”

Jake sat up straighter.

Shit just got real.

Fast.

And they were going to have to learn how to be a team and work together—fast.

He shoved his phone in his pocket. “What do we have?”

McKay pushed a button on the keyboard. The moment a photo of a red-haired teen girl with freckles appeared on the screen, their boss went into briefing mode, telling them fourteen-year-old Olivia Phillips had recently been kidnapped and that the security guards for her apartment building had their throats ripped out.

“At approximately 0200 this morning London time, our STAT team was attacked by an unknown supernatural.” McKay flipped to another slide, this one of two men lying on the ground with their throats torn out, blood soaking their ragged clothes.

He moved to the next slide, a photo of a beautiful woman with full, pouty lips, long dark hair, and even darker eyes. Jake was so locked on the picture he barely heard what McKay was saying until he realized the woman was the third member of the team in London. Which meant she was soon going to be his teammate. His heart suddenly hammered in his chest at the thought.

What the hell?

“Senior field agent Jestina Ridley didn’t get a good look at the creature but took several shots at it. The thing is so fast it disappeared in a blur before she could even hit it.”

Jake frowned, dragging his gaze away from the photo, getting his head back in the game and wondering if that was an exaggeration on Agent Ridley’s part. The creature couldn’t actually be that fast. Then again, she could also have been so rattled by the brutal death of her teammates, she’d been confused about what had happened afterward. It wouldn’t be the first time he’d seen someone do that in a stressful situation.

McKay must have seen the doubt on Jake’s face because he gave him a pointed look. “Don’t downplay Jes’s observations. She’s got more field experience with supernaturals than any other agent in STAT. If she says the creature was so fast it was a blur, then it was a blur. You’re the lead agent for the team—that was part of the deal when we recruited you. And while you have a load of tactical expertise, Jes has been dealing with supernatural creatures for a long time. Make good use of her experience with them.”

“Understood,” Jake said.

He didn’t have a problem working with someone more experienced in the field. He might have been a Navy SEAL and a cop in his former life, but this agent thing was new. Although he couldn’t imagine she’d be thrilled to work for someone so lacking in seniority as far as time in STAT was concerned. Hopefully, it wouldn’t be an issue.

“For reasons we haven’t fully worked out yet, Olivia’s parents are no longer cooperating with the police, which makes it difficult to determine exactly what the current situation is and how these supernaturals are involved,” McKay continued. “It could be a vampire, a werewolf, or something completely different.”

While Jake wasn’t thrilled at the idea of facing more vampires—he’d had his fill of them weeks ago out in Los Angeles—the possibility of going up against other werewolves sucked even worse, and he hoped the supernaturals who’d kidnapped Olivia and butchered those four men were anything other than his own kind.

Across from him, Harley and Caleb looked like they were thinking