“So they rang the police.” My jaw tightened as the scenario formed in my mind. “Figures they would. Why didn’t you call us?”
“I hoped they’d show up, I think. It all seemed so definite when the police knocked on my door and made the report. I was about to call you this morning … then … on the news …” The panic cleared from her eyes a little as her gaze bored into me. “Is it like the others? Tell me the truth, Ethan. Is it the same as the other disappearances you warned me about?”
As much as I wanted to lie and ease the blow, I couldn’t. “Except for the missing human?” I gave a small nod. “It looks that way.”
“The others haven’t been found, have they?” she asked. “They haven’t shown up—”
“Yet,” Dad cut in. “Doesn’t mean they won’t.”
Shelley turned to each of us. “How much do you know about the disappearances?”
“Nowhere near enough,” Dad said.
“You must know something, or you wouldn’t have called me last week to keep a close watch on Gabe.”
Dad’s gaze met mine—Sean’s too. The worry over how much to tell her seemed to cross all of our minds.
“You’re not going to tell me, are you?” she asked.
We all faced Shelley.
“I get it,” she said with a small nod. “I’m not part of your pack, so why—”
“I was contacted”—Dad leaned forward—“the evening before Ethan called you, by Jack Brosen—he’s the Alpha of a pack who runs here, in Shropshire—to find out if I’d followed the news, and to ask for the favour that if I knew anything, I share it.”
Lines creased Shelley’s brow, but she didn’t say anything.
“His son has gone missing—just like Gabe,” Dad continued, “But he kept it off the radar. The ones on the news are the ones officially reported. We have no idea how many more have been taken. Just as we have no idea where they’re going, or who’s taking them, or why. Jack’s also worried it’s more than just werewolves that have gone missing.”
Shelley pushed out her fringe of blonde-streaked red. “What do you mean, Nathan?”
“Five of the reported disappearances have been female,” Dad said. “If there were that many female werewolves nearby?” His shoulders lifted with his shrug. “Trust me, I’d have heard about it.”
“So … so, they are taking humans, too?” Her brows lifted higher with each word.
Dad shook his head. “I don’t think they’re human either.”
Other Titles by J.A. Belfield
Holloway Pack Prequels:
Instinct
Eternal
The Holloway Pack Series
Darkness & Light
Blue Moon
Resonance
Caged
Unnatural
Holloway Pack Minis
Fated Encounter
Hereditary
Anthologies
Make Believe
Into the Unknown
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Hereditary
Acknowledgements
Author
Caged Chapter 1
Other Titles by J.A. Belfield
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