Fur, Cloak and Dagger (Team Greywolf 4)

ed out and Cricket met them. “Hi, Emma, nice to see you.” She looked up at him. “Hey, Nik.”

“Long time no see,” he said.

Emma smiled at Cricket. “How is married life treating you?”

“It’s tolerable.” She winked. “Come on, Rylee is waiting for you.” The petite she-wolf, the same height as Emma, small for a werewolf, opened Rylee’s door.

“Ma’am. Emma and Nik are here.”

Nik sniffed three times and Rylee did the same. Alpha to alpha greeting. Emma lowered her head, knowing her place within lycan society. How could she tolerate the low status? He had never been part of a pack until recently. Pack culture bothered him as well, but he too went along.

Rylee smiled. “That will be all, Cricket.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Sit,” she said.

They did. Rylee narrowed her eyes at Nik. He understood. She scented his attraction to Emma. “After you called, I had Jesper look up your assassin, Freddie Novone. He’s on the FBI most wanted list. I’m sure they were pleased to get the call. He is, as he said, a professional assassin hired mostly by the mob and some foreign governments to silence enemies in the United States. Nik, you got all the information from that asshole he could possibly have given you.”

“Do you recognize the description of the man who hired him?” asked Emma.

“I’ll have a sketch artist work on him and then we’ll see if our computer can search for facial recognition. Knowing he is Russian or Eastern European helps, but only if he is human.”

Nik frowned. “You think he could be werewolf?”

“Possibly. A few from the Chess Piece gang did escape.”

“Why would they want to expose themselves to the LIA?” asked Emma.”

Rylee frowned. “Good question. They are outnumbered.”

“What if Saskia recruited them?”

“Even if she did, Saskia would never risk getting back at us by gaining a few recruits. Our intel tells us she knows we are after her.”

Nik sighed. “I was close to a lead in Prague, if you hadn’t…never mind.”

“Sorry, Nik. Our first priority was Emma’s safety.”

“I understand, but if you don’t mind, I must return to Prague.”

Emma wrinkled her nose. “Saskia, the blood wolf vampire.”

Nik raised a brow. “You know of her?”

“My father and I searched for her as well. She is the niece of the Nazi werewolf Wolfram. The only member of his pack to escape the explosion. Trust me, we followed every lead of bodies found drained of blood. Most turned out to be the victims of various serial killers.”

Nik shook his head. “After she is done, she eats her victims. And if not, she hides their bodies.”

“That’s what we figured, but even so, she must have a voracious appetite,” said Emma.

Rylee scoffed. “In alpha werewolf form, that’s not so difficult.”

Nik stood. “Which is why I must leave.”

“Not so fast, Nikolay,” said Rylee.

“Why?”