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“What the hell?” he asked, taking a step toward the figures emerging from the shadows. Vic had hogtied Jacskson, and he had duct tape over his mouth. Jackson was trying his best to scream behind it.
Behind Vic was Tabian and Dodger.
Liam was too shocked to put a coherent sentence together.
“Little help?” Vic asked, waiting by the tight slit in the fence.
Shocked, Liam pulled the cut fence apart and Tabian pulled the other side. Vic tossed Jackson through the hole they made like a sack of rocks. The human made anoofsound, like the wind had been knocked from his lungs. Good lord they were so fragile.
“How did you…”
“Nate told us,” Dodger said, pulling up his phone screen. “Look at this shit.”
He had a picture of an apartment living room, and a video monitoring system that took up an entire wall.
“What is that?” Liam asked, squinting at the huge monitor in the picture. It had several pictures on it.
“Oh, just wait.” Dodger showed him a video next, and it was scanning the room, and then went from the monitor set up into the hallway, and into a bedroom. He was following a wire. The video panned up to the ceiling, following that wire, and it disappeared into the wall. “I’ll give you one guess on where the video feed is coming from.”
And it hit him. Nory’s apartment was just two floors directly above Jackson’s. Liam would be his life savings that wire went straight up the inside of the wall and peeked out somewhere in her bedroom.
A long, low growl rattled his chest as he dragged his glare to the man on the ground.
Jackson’s eyes were wide with fear. He had no idea what he’d stepped in.
Liam blurred to him and slammed his fist against his face.
He felt that satisfying crack, and then…nothing.
His vision collapsed inward until everything went dark, and all he could hear was the wolf breaking his bones to escape his skin.
Chapter Twelve
“What is he doing?” Nory asked, cupping her hot mug of coffee closer to her chest.
Delta came to stand beside her and crossed her arms over her chest, shaking her head slightly. “I don’t know.”
Bridger was sitting in the middle of the yard in a lawn chair. Not once had he turned to look at them, but every muscle in his body seemed to be tensed.
“Where’s Liam, Delta?” Nory asked for the third time.
“I don’t know,” she whispered. Her eyes were full of worry as she stared out the window.
“Where’s Nate?” she asked.
Delta shook her head. “I don’t know.”
Nory huffed a breath of frustration and made her way into the kitchen. She poured the last half of her coffee into the sink and rinsed the mug, then headed for the guest bedroom. Liam had left her here with no explanation, and ignoring all of their plans for the day. He’d left her stranded with no ride to town.
“What are you doing?” Delta asked, following her to the bedroom.
“I’m leaving. I should’ve known this was going to happen.”
“Wait, what was going to happen?” Delta asked.
“He’s freaking out. Oh my gosh. He’s freaking out,” she whispered again as the realization really hit her.
Last night had been such a huge deal to her, and she’d gone to sleep happier than she’d ever felt in her life, and now Liam was running. “Can you take me into town?” she asked, tears burning her eyes.