Fur, Cloak and Dagger (Team Greywolf 4)
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Emma nodded. “Poachers got the entire pack. No more wolves to study. At least not in this area.”
“Call your boss and tell them what we told you. Then you will take me and Jane to your headquarters.”
Tank blinked.
Emma narrowed her eyes at Tank. “Who is your boss?”
The man’s breathing grew rapid, and shook his head as if fighting Nik’s control. “A woman and a man.”
Nik frowned. “Is she Russian?”
“Yes.”
He pressed his temples. “What is her name?”
Nik suspected no other than Saskia. Though she was werewolf, she was the niece of the eugenicist Nazi. They had once held vast data of all werewolves, and possibly all wolf packs with the unique ancestral genes. Saskia would betray their kind in a heartbeat.
“We don’t know her real name. She is known as Blood Mistress, but we call her Mistress.”
Nik frowned. “Saskia.”
Emma leaned in. “Really?”
Nik turned to the man. “How old is she?”
He shrugged. “We have not met her.”
Of course she wouldn’t reveal herself to just any human. Not to these lackeys. Nik glared at them. “And the man’s name?”
“Boss.”
Probably only a few knew the man’s real identity. “Tell your pilot to meet you here.”
The man called the pilot and then lowered his head. “He is on the way.”
The pilot joined them and looked confused. “What the hell is going on?”
Nik met his eyes. “Obey my orders.”
The pilot blinked then nodded. “Yes”
Nik addressed the enthralled men. “You will believe what we told you as complete truth.” They nodded. “Don’t move.”
Emma took him aside. “This so called Blood Mistress may not be Saskia.”
“The name describes her. She kills and then bathes in female human’s blood.”
“Not that I’m trying to teach lycan history to a werewolf, but a woman with Stallo’s gene is referred to as a blood mistress.”
“You think she might be Anton’s wife, Svetlana?”
“Why not? Her body was never recovered. Lev believes she escaped and either joined another criminal group, whether werewolf or human.”
Nik slowly nodded. He hoped the woman was Saskia so he could eliminate her before she killed more, but Emma’s hypothesis about the woman being Svetlana made sense. Either way, both women may have learned about the wolves with the chimera retrovirus. “Good idea to go with them.”
“Svetlana, being human, won’t know you are a werewolf, but Saskia will.”
“What are you saying?”