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isn’t from eating in the chow hall.”
    “So let me get this straight. Roughly a third of Team One has been killed or is MIA and nobody thought to say anything?” Mitchell slapped the notebook down on the desk and glared at Mark.
    “Apparently it was one here, another there…it all took place over the last five or six months.” He shrugged. “They didn’t have reason to believe it was anything other than normal casualties during high risk missions.”
    “Normal casualties?” Mitchell sat down hard and stared at Mark disbelievingly. “How often do they lose people, I wonder?”
    “They would find just enough evidence for them to convincingly place the person in the ‘deceased’ pile. Whether it was a bloody uniform or…hell, what does it matter? They’re pissed that we didn’t inform them that Sheridan slipped WitSec.”
    “Like we’d have any idea that weasel had. There’s a reason it’s called witness protection. They don’t even tell us where the son of a…” Mitchell forced himself to stop and take a deep breath. “So the weasel not only slipped from WitSec, he recruited from his old team.”
    Mark nodded and tapped the list. “The ones who wouldn’t join, he removed from service. Permanently. I guess he couldn’t risk them telling anybody that he was back and about to stir up trouble.”
    Mitchell reached for the phone. “Get me the clean-up crews.” He turned to Mark. “We need them to wait on incinerating the bodies. I want every one of them bounced off this list until we can tell if any of the MIA are with the dead.”
     
    *****
     
    Rufus loaded the plane just as his phone rang. He took his seat and answered it. Foster fell into the chair across from him and watched his brother’s eyes widen slightly. He spoke quietly into the phone then thanked the caller and ended the call. “Who was that?”
    Rufus tucked the phone back into his coat pocket and buckled his seat belt. “That was one of our hired security. It would appear that representatives from an unknown military group came to the hotel looking for a party meeting our description.”
    Foster sat up, his curiosity piqued. “What did he say?”
    “Only that they inquired as to whether or not we might have stayed at the hotel.” Thorn sat back and closed his eyes, his face unreadable.
    “And?”
    “And the hotel staff is worth every Euro.” He opened his eyes and a slight smile crossed his features. “They said that they’ve had no large parties check into the hotel in months. The human hunters left, accepting their answer.”
    “Something must have led them to that particular hotel.”
    “ Non , security followed them to the next hotel where they asked the same questions. We are safe. For now.”
    Thorn closed his eyes again as the plane’s engines began spinning up. Foster chewed nervously at his lower lip. “Was Thompson with them?”
    “ Non , Jack would be in the States still. Remember, he had to shift with the moon. I doubt that he would be in any condition to travel.”
    Foster leaned back in his seat and stared out the window. “Still, we had better keep on our toes. If Viktor had not secured the meeting with the Gypsy…”
    “ Oui , we would have been caught. Rather, we could have been caught. It truly would depend on the diligence of the hunters.”
    “Tell me where we are going next. I need to set up security ahead of our arrival.” Foster pulled his PDA from his coat pocket and began tapping into it.
    “ Non . We will not need additional security. We are invited by the wolves, we will be under their protection. We have the pack master’s word.”
    Foster glared at his brother. “You, of all people, should know better than to trust your life…no, all of our lives, on somebody’s word. We need extra security before we get close to—”
    “ Non !” Rufus sat up and shot Foster a stern stare. “When it comes to wolves, who knows better how to deal with them? Only I. If I say that Viktor’s word