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Jerry settles onto the couch in Vivian and Rafe&039;s sh theas I flick on a desk la it to the resident electrician&039;s side I take a seat and stare into the old engineer&039;s hazel eyes,myself that thisout my will, I lay a mind compulsion in my words "You will answer all ofa hand through his gray hair and ot plans with Margery later Assuuests, that is"

"Did you shoot any wolves yesterday or today?"

"No"

"Do you know of anyone eo after them?"

A snort comes from Jerry as he looks away and then back to s after what they did to protect the children when Ivan was loose last fall"

Good point I wondered at the validity of that question when Jon presented it "Does anyone besides you have silver bullets?"

He shrugs and settles back on the couch "Not that I know of Only Margery and you bloodsuckers know I have them and make my own"

Jerry is one of the few on the resort who doesn&039;t donate blood and knoe are I have no idea why Vivian allows it, but I&039;m sure she has her reasons See doctor about his silver bullets "Why does the doctor know?"

"Because I love her, you fool" He grunation "A man shouldn&039;t keep secrets fro my vamp whammy is still in place whether I stare at him or not, I continue my questions "Have you seen any new faces recently on the property?"

"No" He paces to the door

"Where did you go on leave?"

Jerry spins back around, a spark of anger lighting his face "I went to Fairbanks Are we alh here?"

I rise from the chair and walk to the older et this conversation and think we discussed an upco a beat, he opens the door then turns back at , got it?"

I smile and nod h the kitchen, passing Romeo and Elsa seated with Jon at a round table The back door slams on his way out, and the three alphas look to me "He wasn&039;t involved Doesn&039;t know of anyone who could be doing the shooting, and no one else has silver a Jerry, Romeo came in with anotherform of an injured olf in his ar medical attention from Dr Cook Jerry&039;s plans with the doctor will have to wait a little while, but da to be the one to tell hi the shooter wasn&039;t Jerry, but tension still pinches his face and rolls off him in waves A wail of despair comes from the direction of the basement

"Has Kotsana been properly confined?" Roed and placed in a vampire safe room down below Should hold him"

Elsa&039;s delicate features and short pixie haircut look out of place on the sad alpha "Jon, does anyone hate you enough to be doing this?"

Jon sits up a bit and looks to his former leader "What makes you so sure it&039;s because of me? The lot of you could have led an enemy here froht out, boy Can&039;t you see that? Scouting and setting traps takesthis was here first"

I pull up a chair and sip bloodcoffee in a travel s with thisthe inn "So, you&039;re both suggesting this hunter, or hunters, was here before your plane arrived yesterday, right?" They both nod "Who knew of your plans to come up here?"

The couple&039;s faces cloud over "Pretty much everyone in our entire pack," Elsa answers Jon swears under his breath

I setis your pack?"

Romeo says, "Fifty But they are spread out over the province And no, they don&039;t all get along"

"Are some married outside of the pack? Like to non-Weres?" Jon asks

"Yes, one or two are even et addicted to their ain, Vivian never has with Jon&039;s, so"You can rule out the vaht up here with no place to hide It&039;s not like there&039;s a hotel near by"

Jon stares off with a speculative expression "We do have all those empty cabins"

Romeo dismisses it with a wave of his hand "We&039;d have smelled any vampires near the cabins"

Jon runs a hand over his face, for amuch older than his normal mid-twenties appearance "Essentially all of your pack&039;s human mates could knoell?"

A little sound of distress comes from Elsa "And not all of them have relatives who like olves"

Jon stands up and crosses to the fridge for a bottled water "Weren&039;t the er evident on his face "How could you let this many people be ae exist?"