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she and Cole had, the two special agents, Patrick Connelly and Sam Westby, lacked advantage of knowing what they were up against.
    “Luca is explosives happy,” Mitch said from behind them.
    Jade laughed. “I noticed that. So the house will probably be rigged?”
    “Oh yeah,” Mitch agreed.
    Jade liked the younger shifter. He was tall and broad-shouldered with an easy smile. He reminded her of her little brother Jules. She slowed down so that Mitch could join them. “What else?”
    “Cody’s team will be lookout. They’ll be in their shifted form and will circle around the target,” Mitch provided.
    They reached the van that they were to use. Cole yanked open the back door and motioned everyone forward. The small parking garage light washed over them as they gathered closer to Cole. There were five of them. Cole and Jade, and three shifters—Mitch, Brady and Adam. The other teams were guarding the location and the target, Luca.
    “They expect a sneak attack,” Cole stated. “Luca isn’t allowed to fight back if we catch him. He has to come willingly. So we just have to catch the security teams off guard.”
    “This is impossible,” Adam stated. “They work together too well. We’ll never get close to Luca.”
    Jade shook her head. “No, because they still have to follow the rules. Only one team is allowed to remain with Luca in the house. The others have to play along as if they have other work to continue. I think they’ll break the teams up, though. For the first shift they’ll have a bird, bear and feline and keep rotating.”
    “I agree,” Cole said. He glanced at his watch. “We have six minutes until the mission starts. We need to be ready to move quickly. We have the address they’ll be at so that’s the easiest part. He grabbed a long tube from the back of the vehicle. “Jade, you and Mitch look at the prints from the house. They are going to expect us to hit between one and three so that’s what we’re not going to do.”
    “Why one and three?” Brady asked. Brady was the newest member of the Coalition, Jade had learned, only joining the wolves a month ago. He’d just gotten his criminal justice degree but didn’t have a lot of field experience. He was, however, very determined to prove himself. Jade had noticed that he stayed quiet when all the task force were together and hung back. He was an observer. She respected that trait and knew that it would come in handy.
    “Because that’s normally when we would strike. The guards will be getting tired. That’s the shift they’ll give to Cody, Zak and Jamie. Those three will be tough to beat. They have the most training and have worked together for a long time. We want to avoid them if at all possible,” Cole said.
    “You want to hit them right away,” Jade guessed.
    “Yes,” Cole replied. “The problem with that is after we get Luca we’ll have to hide him. This exercise is to run until 0500 hours. If we get Luca the others have a chance to retrieve him back. We don’t want that so we need a safe house.”
    Jade bit her lip as she considered their options. Cole had a point that hitting the target house early would give them an advantage but there was no way that they could hide Luca for seven hours without a plan. “We could bring him back here,” she suggested as she waved to the Coalition office behind her.
    “They’ll expect that. And they know the building better than we do,” Cole said.
    “The FBI safe house?” Mitch suggested.
    Cole nodded. “I thought about that but I think that would be their second choice. Sam and Patrick could easily find out where it was located. They have enough manpower to break up and hit both places.”
    “They’ll also be able to access the FBI since they have two agents with them,” Jade stated.
    “So we need a house?” Adam asked.
    Jade glanced over at him. He was grinning with a little bit of an evil glint to his eye. “What?” she questioned, afraid of his answer.
    “I have