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you finally give my father a reason to annihilate your precious Pack.” He went to the door and turned back, a twisted smile contorting his disfigured face. “I will not be ignored.”
    The door slammed behind him, and Adam sighed. “I guess we know why Nero hasn’t come calling yet. Damian’s not dead.”
    “He’s a monster.” All our attention shifted to Lana, Adam’s mate. The color had drained from her face. Lana grew up in foster care with no idea about the identity of her parents. Recently we discovered she shared a father with Sebastian and Damian, but for now, Damian didn’t know, and we intended to keep it that way. The crazy hybrid creature was Lana’s fraternal twin, but he was also after the Nero empire. “He won’t stop until he gets what he wants.”
    “Over my dead body,” Adam growled.
    “That’s what I’m worried about.” Lana stood, crossing to Adam.
    I shook my head. “We can protect Adam and our Pack. Now that we know Damian’s unique scent, he’ll never get close again.”
    She rubbed her hands up and down her arms. “He may have something else in mind.”
    Adam pulled his wife into his arms and met my eyes over her head. “Tail him. See if you can find out what he’s planning.”
    I nodded. Luke followed me to the door.
    “Be careful.”
    “Always.” We turned and headed out into the darkness.
    …
    “Do you think he seriously believed Adam would take him into our Pack?” Luke adjusted the binoculars.
    We’d followed Damian up the mountain to his fortress at Lake Tahoe. I stared at his place from across the street. “I don’t know what to think. I still don’t understand how he’s walking and talking. He shouldn’t have survived that fire.”
    Luke glanced my way. “It was snowing. When he fell down the mountain, maybe he hit a drift. It could’ve snuffed out the fire. It’s been six months, and he has money for the best doctors.”
    “Maybe.” The new security fence made seeing into the cabin compound impossible, but a light blazed in a third story window.
    Luke kept the binoculars trained on the house. “Do you think it’s true Nero turned him away now that he’s got some wolf DNA floating around inside of him?”
    I shrugged. “His egomaniacal father can’t be happy about the turn of events, but I’m kind of surprised he let him leave. Wouldn’t all the scientists at Nero be chomping at the bit to run tests and study him? Plus, months have passed since that fight on the mountain. He’s had six full moons. Has he been shifting into a wolf? He still smells like a jaguar, too. What if he’s shifting twice a month?”
    Luke turned his head to meet my eyes. “Wouldn’t it kill him? Can a body handle that much mutating in a month?”
    “I don’t know. But he had to be desperate to come to us. And a desperate animal is a dangerous one.”
    “Speaking of danger…” Luke pointed to the lit window. “There he is.”
    “Bingo.” I pulled out my phone and texted Adam we had confirmation of Damian in the Lake Tahoe cabin.
    Luke set the binoculars on the seat. “You can’t let Vivi get caught up in this.”
    “I know.” I gripped the steering wheel a little tighter. “But she doesn’t trust me. She’s not going to drop the story because I ask her to.”
    “Then you’d better work on fixing that, and protect her.”
    “Yeah. There’s a shit storm brewing on the horizon, and I need to keep her out of it.”

Chapter Six
    Vivianna
    When the “Nero Organization” turned up a bunch of dead ends, I switched tactics. Damian Severino. Google still had nothing to report about him. How could this big-time businessman, a government defense contractor, not have any digital footprint? No Facebook, no LinkedIn, no Twitter—and stranger still, not a mention in a single news article or blog.
    I flopped back in my chair and took a long, slow sip of my iced tea. There had to be an angle I was missing. Grabbing his card, I flipped it end over end while my