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pounding down the stairs cut him off.
    Daniel came flying back into the kitchen. “Piper is gone.” He rushed the words all out at once.
    Fuck . Jace hung his head down, shaking it slightly. “Man, I should’ve known. No way was she settled last night. Dammit.” Just like a Wilding to run off half-cocked, doing God-knew-what. Probably the craziest thing possible. From what little he knew of Piper, it was probably the most dangerous thing possible. Somehow that roused his wolf up from the depths almost as much as her curvy little behind in the moonlight. He growled back at his wolf, shoving him down again, then whipped his head up to look at Daniel. “I don’t suppose you have any idea where she’s run off to?”
    His scowled, the muscles in his jaw working overtime. “I know exactly where she’s gone.”

Getting onto the Joint Base wouldn’t be that difficult, now that Piper had swiped her brother’s identification and base pass. She’d used his ID to create a slightly-modified duplicate, putting some of her counterintelligence skills to good use, but the security just wasn’t that tight at the Joint Base to begin with. At least, not at the front gate, where she sat in a line of cars idling in the early morning wait to get waved through.
    The sun was just starting to rise over the mountains in the east. The small guard shack sat under a long corrugated metal roof stretching over the three lanes that marked the entrance. She’d retrieved her car—the one she used when she was in Seattle—to drive to the base rather than take a cab, like she’d  used to return from River brothers’ safehouse in the mountains, a good hour away. She imagined Jace was looking for her about now, and she couldn’t help wondering what his reaction would be when he discovered she took off. Royally pissed, probably. Her wolf had been whining ever since she left, but she doubted Jace’s first reaction would be regret that they hadn’t ravished each other before she disappeared.  Piper rolled her eyes at her wolf’s pathetic whimper about that.
    The Joint Base was south of Tacoma, a sprawling enterprise of on-base housing, training grounds, workout facilities, and all manner of Army and Air Force operations. The building she was most interested in was near the center of the several mile wide complex—the command center. She hoped Daniel’s key card would gain her access to the red-bricked and stoic-looking building… as well as a secure terminal to search for clues as to Noah’s location. 
    Of course, hacking into the Army’s database was highly illegal, but she was doing it for a good cause—and it was something the Army itself should be doing for her brother, if they cared at all about their shifter soldiers. He was just another grunt to them, but he was everything to her. And she worried that his shifter abilities had maybe caught too much interest from them. As she well knew, the Army put their soldiers to maximum use, deploying all their assets. Her secret hope was that they’d simply recruited him into some dark program where he was using his shifter abilities to fight the bad guys. She’d even be proud of that.
    But she knew her little brother—he would have bragged about that to her. Endlessly.
    Piper edged forward in the car line, sandwiched between two rows of pointed orange cones half the size of her vehicle. The guards quickly waved through the people ahead of her, but when she reached the front, the middle-aged one in charge asked for her ID with a short wave of his fingers. She gave it over with a bright smile that she hoped would convince him she had the IQ of a fluffy bunny and posed just as much of a security risk… and couldn’t possibly be civilian counterintelligence trying to hack their secure databases. This wasn’t her first time convincing people she was something she wasn’t, but she couldn’t go too far with the dumb girl act. The Joint Base got a lot of civilian traffic, spouses and