Wolf's Call (Wolves Next Door #2) - Auryn Hadley Page 0,156

He knows what we are, but Ian was careful not to confirm anything. We thought that he'd tell his story to the cops, get some mental help, and that would be it. But if there's a video..."

I flapped my hand for him to give me back my phone. "Which is what I was about to look for."

Lane didn't get the chance. A light tap at my bedroom door came just before the handle jiggled. Then, "Lane?" It was Ian.

Lane got up and unlocked the door, turning the knob just enough to release the latch. Then he kept going to the bathroom. Ian stepped inside, saw Lane's bare ass, and laughed once. But none of that slowed him on his way over to the bed.

"Elena, there's a video."

I tossed my phone onto the blankets and flopped back onto the mattress. "I have been awake exactly two minutes, and that's the second time I've heard that. Gerardo called to say the same thing. What video, Ian?"

"It's Roman," he said. "Someone recorded him mid-shift. It shows a wolf chasing Mason out of the school. The news has Mason screaming about how the werewolves made him do it, and that he was trying to protect the kids at school."

From the bathroom, Lane called back, "We need to talk to Roman."

"Which is why I'm here," Ian told him. "I want to steal your mate." Then he looked at me. "I was thinking we could go over to Kim's place together. Lane can stay here for Gabby if you want, but we need to know exactly what happened so we can figure out how to deal with it."

"Ok." Then, for the third time, I grabbed my phone and sat up. This time I actually managed to search for the video. "We also need to know what everyone else is seeing, when it came out, and all of that."

The first two links were to articles that merely talked about the video. It was the third when I finally found a snippet. That led to YouTube, where someone had posted everything. The account had a few million views already, but there was no obvious username and the only information about the video was that it was from the shooting at our school on February fifteenth.

Turning so Ian could see it, I tapped to play. There was no sound, and for the first twenty seconds, it just showed the hall. Feet could be seen at the edge, and a door closed across the hall, but that was it. Clearly, this had been recorded in the middle of the shooting. Even watching that much made my guts tense as I tried to imagine how terrified Gabby had been.

Then it happened. Mason ran through the middle of the hall, completely visible to this camera. A blur on the right side morphed into a wolf chasing him, only to vanish less than a second later. Then the video played it again in slow motion. The third time was even slower - and that was when I saw the problem.

The first blur was Roman in his lycan form. There was no doubt about it - but he changed before his entire body was on the camera. Between one step and the next, the boy went from being a monster to a wolf, never breaking his gait. It looked almost like something from a commercial, but there was no denying that this thing was clearly a wolf.

Wait.

Gabby had mentioned that they'd been keeping track of where the cameras were. They'd been using them to make sure that if Mason tried anything, there'd be proof. Had Roman forgotten about that? The kids were in those halls all day long. Or had he changed because he knew where they were and had simply misjudged the angle?

No, this camera seemed to be lower, around the level of a person, not set at the top of the wall like a security camera would've been. That meant it came from a cell phone - which probably had a person attached to the other side of the screen. In other words, someone else had seen him shift.

"What are we going to do?" I asked, looking up at him.

"No idea," Ian admitted. "I always knew that cameras would one day expose us, but I never expected this."

"Ok." I tossed off the blankets and headed to the other side of my room to get clothes. "Did you call Kim yet?"

"Sent her a text that we need to pick Roman's brain," he admitted