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to involve John in any of this. That’s all I need—him sending Clayne Buchanan down here to crash my sister’s wedding. We’d catch the bad guys, all right, but probably burn down the country club in the process. No thanks.”
    The DCO’s resident wolf shifter wasn’t quite as surly and difficult to work with as he’d been before getting back together with his former partner-slash-girlfriend, Danica Beckett, but he still didn’t do subtle very well.
    “Okay,” Kendra reluctantly agreed. “But I think you’re just making this harder on yourself. John is probably going to find out what you’re up to, no matter what I tell him.”
    “I’ll deal with that if it happens,” Eden told her. Across from her, Travis had set down his fork and knife and was waiting for her to finish her call. “What’d you find out about the guys who jumped Brandon and Tim?”
    “Well, for starters, the two guys the VBPD have in their lockup are freelance muscle out of New York City. They both have extensive arrest records up there and were apparently brought in specifically for this job. I have them on video coming down the New Jersey Turnpike the day before yesterday. I have no idea who hired them yet, but whoever it was, they must have paid them well. Neither one is saying a word about who brought them in, even though they’re looking at some pretty serious time because of those automatic weapons.”
    “And the other three guys?” Eden asked. “The ones who got away.”
    “Not much there. The cops found the car they fled the scene in about a mile away from the boardwalk. It was stolen and the whole thing had been wiped clean of prints. I’m doing computer searches of all the local video footage and traffic camera photos I can find, hoping we’ll get lucky. Nothing yet, though. If they took the Turnpike down like the other guys, it wasn’t within the past few days.”
    “What about the wolf shifter?” Eden asked.
    “Not a thing.”
    Dammit. Eden found that hard to believe. The DCO was exceptionally good at finding and keeping an eye on higher level shifters. And that big-ass wolf shifter she and Travis fought in the alley should definitely have been on the DCO’s radar.
    “So, what are you going to do now?” Kendra asked. 
    Eden sighed. “Probably dig around a little more and see what I can uncover.”
    “You sure you don’t need some backup?” Kendra asked. “I can get Declan to go down there if you need him. I promise he won’t say anything to John.”
    Eden glanced at Travis to find him regarding her with blatant interest. “No, I’m good. I think I have my own backup already in place. Just keep digging for whatever dirt you can find, and call me as soon as you find something.”
    “I will.” Kendra promised. “Be careful.”
    Eden hung up and put her phone away with an apologetic smile. “Sorry that took so long.”
    Travis shook his head. “No problem. Since you mentioned something about the big guy with the claws and fangs being a wolf shifter, I’m going to assume that since you have claws and fangs as well, you’re some kind of shifter, too. Am I right?”
    It was while she’d been talking to Kendra that Eden decided to tell Travis everything—at least about herself. She’d let the stuff about the guy in the alley being a wolf shifter slip on purpose, hoping it would make a good segue into the conversation.
    Eden chewed on her lower lip. “You sure you want to hear this? Finding out the world is completely different than you think it is can be hard for some people to take.”
    She held her breath, part of her hoping he’d say he didn’t want to hear it. Travis might not have freaked out in the alley, but that could be because he was a soldier used to seeing things in the heat of battle. What if finding out what she was disgusted him?
    “I want to hear it,” he said. “If you trust me enough to tell me.”
    “Can I trust you?”
    “Yes.”
    She really hadn’t needed to hear him say it.