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    RJ smiled in return.
    “RJ!” Casey snapped.
    The wolf RJ laughed again. “He’s a hawk shifter.”
    “Hawk, like a bird?” Dawson scoffed. “No way.”
    RJ nodded. “I swear.”
    “Huh, that’s interesting,” Dawson noted but waved a hand at his brother. “But it’s still beside the point. You put your family in danger. It might not matter to you , but I do have Beth and Toby to protect, whether you sent someone to watch over them or not.”
    “I care. I’ve always cared,” Casey told him quietly.
    Dawson obviously wasn’t buying it.
    “If I followed your trail here, what’s to say the others won’t? Why not just come out in the open and tell everyone what happened?” Gray questioned, trying to get them back on track. Maybe it was a good thing he’d never had any siblings.
    “You were closer to finding Zach than anyone else. We left the maps, hoping someone on our side would pick up on them. But we didn’t want it to be so obvious. Just didn’t think you’d be so damn quick,” Casey told them.
    “We’ve been keeping watch. We think the cats will come in through the canyon,” RJ added.
    “That means they have to go through the tourists and park rangers.” Dawson shook his head. “That would be stupid.”
    “The alternative is going through Coyote Bluff where you are. And if they are following the wolves, they know Grayson is there, too,” Prince Zachary reasoned.
    Gray thought about it. They really were right. Anyone going back after the Prince would fare better going through humans than an entire town of shifters. “What’s the plan?”
    The smaller man that had been guarding the Prince grinned. “Lay in wait.”
    “That’s it?” Dawson practically yelled. “That’s your great plan?”
    “This is the best military unit in the world. Every one of us is a shifter and specialises in some kind of warfare. I’m pretty sure we can take care of a few untrained cats,” RJ snapped.
    All of the felines around the cave growled.
    “You know what I mean!” RJ insisted but Gray noticed he leaned away from them all.
    “An entire unit of shifters?” Gray asked, curious. “Was that done on purpose?”
    The men all shared a meaningful look before Casey answered, “Yes. You know the Alpha Council and the Prince’s advisors have spoken to government officials about the shifters going public?”
    Gray and Dawson nodded.
    “They had to have found out about us some way. Shifters have been serving in the military for hundreds of years. It doesn’t take much brainpower to figure out some of us are harder to kill.”
    “Yeah, but…” Gray had a thousand questions. He wondered if his Alpha or their friends knew.
    “There were many bad years back fifty years or so. Shifter soldiers were taken and experimented on. Zach’s family was a huge part of stopping that,” Casey told them proudly. “Instead, the royal family worked out a deal with the government. The shifters would continue to join the military, with the government guaranteeing their identities would remain secret. They would be able to take on missions that were not safe for the regular humans. Ones that were guaranteed to kill humans, the shifters could take and survive. The government recruited specific species with the approval of the royal family.”
    Gray sat in shocked silence, trying to take it all in. “If they already know all about us, then why are we even planning on going public?” Gray questioned.
    “While the governments, here and in many other countries, are aware of our existence, that does not protect shifters from those who don’t know about us. We can have laws to control hunting, but I still lose thousands of my species a year. In some states, if you see a cougar or even a bobcat, it is lawful to shoot right away. There must be something done about this. I’m losing too many children all too often,” Prince Zachary informed him.
    Gray nodded. It was the same thing Tony had always told him. Before he