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Eduardo had a pug For so about this?" I asked

"Nothing," George said "I reported Eduardoto him in private He told me that he would look into it, and then two hours later he said that Dad are Eduardo hadn’t checked in"

I glanced at Curran

"Mahon pulled the clan card," Curran said "Eduardo’s disappearance is a Clan Heavy matter Unless the shapeshifter is an employee of the Pack overall or the clan requests Jim’s assistance, he can’t do much He can tell his people to be on the lookout for Eduardo but won’t actively search for him"

"Can’t or won’t?" I asked

"Both," Curran said "An active search would involve questioning e on Mahon’s authority as an alpha There are strict guidelines that protect the autonomy of each clan within the Pack, and this would cross the line George is right Jiether He won’t do anything to intentionally aggravate hiht be different, but for now Jihtrope If he actively searches for Eduardo, Mahon can spin it as Ji his position as the Beast Lord The moment Mahon publicly confronts Jim, it will be seen as a vote of no confidence in Jim’s ability to lead, and the rest of the clans will screahts If that happens, Ji, he’ll look weak, and if he challenges Mahon, he’ll look like a dictator It’s a bad place to be, and Jiht about Mahon It was unlikely that the Bear, as Mahon was known, had made Eduardo disappear It wouldn’t fit with his ethical code But if Eduardo had e of the situation He sie had a huge farown up in Atlanta, and if she vanished, the entirety of Clan Heavy would look for her But Eduardo was an outsider He’d arrived in Atlanta roughly three years ago, and as far as I knew, he had no family in the state

"I don’t even know if he’s dead or alive" George’s coged snarl "He could be dead in a ditch so it in ht never see hiain How does this even happen? How can soone the next?"

Curran pushed away froently "It will be okay," he said quietly "Kate will find him"

I didn’t know if I should be happy he had co a promise I wasn’t sure I could keep I decided on happy, because I could see a mine buried in our path and I had to tell theer leaking out fro the trip to the Black Sea She’d fought for the Pack and she’d sacrificed her ar murdered She was the one as always upbeat, always confident and cohed easily and she said what she thought, because she had no trouble defending her opinion And now she was crying and frantic, and itwith the world Life was unfair, but this was pushing it I had to fix this

George stepped away fro to erase the tears

"We have a proble, the other end e officially hires us and Cutting Edge to look for Eduardo, Jim can still block it It’s in our contract When the Pack authorized seed e, they put in a clause that in the event a ation has to be cleared by the Beast Lord Jirowled

I nodded at Curran "He did"

"It seeet around this?" I asked

Curran looked at George "I a to ask you a question and I need you to think about it very carefully before you answer Have you ever heard Eduardo Ortego express an intention to leave the Pack as part of my separation staff?"